Mail reporter Macpherson dies aged 91

ANGUS Macpherson, the reporter who covered the moon landings for the Daily Mail, has died aged 91.

He joined the Mail in 1960 and as air and defence correspondent covered the US space programme, including the Apollo 11 moon landing and the safe return of damaged Apollo 13.

An award-winner for his coverage of Nato preparedness, he was one of the last two journalists to leave Saigon in Vietnam when the city fell in 1975, and one of the first to travel on Concorde.

In his later career he became art critic for The Mail on Sunday. His wife Wendy died in 2006.