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Martin Bell

Both of Martin Bell's careers, as foreign affairs correspondent and more recently as politician, have been remarkably colourful.

As one of the most distinguished foreign affairs reporters of his generation, Martin Bell was among those who defined the term "war correspondent".

He later stole the show in the 1997 election campaign with his anti-sleaze battle against MP Neil Hamilton.

It all began in 1962, when Martin Bell joined the BBC in Norwich aged 24 with a first-class honours degree from King's College, Cambridge, behind him.

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The call to London came three years later, and soon he was in Ghana on his first foreign assignment.

Over the next 30 years, he reported from 80 countries and covered 11 conflicts. He made his name in Vietnam in the 1960s, and also covered wars in the Middle East, Nigeria, Angola and Rwanda, as well as numerous assignments in Northern Ireland.

His sparse, uncompromising style of journalism won him the Royal Television Society's R