Les Hinton on The Bootle Boy: an untidy life in news
He had the only telly in the whole building in 1959. I used to hide behind the leather sofa watching the telly and one night he walked in and I sat there thinking my career is definitely doomed. I was 15 years old, I wanted to be a journalist, and he just turned out the light and left. Les Hinton, author of The Bootle Boy: an untidy life on news