<a href="https://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/richard-baker-obituary.jpg"><img src="https://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/richard-baker-obituary.jpg" alt="BBC news reader Richard Baker" width="660" height="371" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10293" /></a>

Former BBC news reader Richard Baker has died, aged 93. The well-known journalist first broadcast in 1954, and was a mainstay of British front rooms, relaying world events.

It is fitting, therefore, that he should be remembered in this Suffolk Gazette obituary Haiku, by Richard Standen

<strong>Have you heard the news?
Richard Baker's last headline
It's goodnight from him.

Richard Baker OBE RD, BBC news broadcaster</strong>
Born: 15th June 1925, Willesden, Middlesex, England
Died: 17th November 2018, Oxford, England
