Lest old friends and colleagues of Peter Tory failed to see it, let me commend the obituary by Arnie Wilson in Press Gazette.
Peter, who died on 9 October aged 73, worked variously on the Daily and Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Mirror. Belying the stereotype of the tabloid journalist, he was a cultured man and a witty writer.
A former actor, when called on to make a speech he didn't need anyone else to write the script. I recall him making an hilarious address at a dinner for his friend, Mirror group editor-in-chief Mike Molloy, to mark Mike's retirement in 1990.
Peter did the whole speech with his back turned to Mike as if he had was uncertain who he was and why he was there. It was but one example of Peter's offbeat humour. His writing was idiosyncratic too.
Source: Press Gazette