Journalist and former MP Martin Bell is to give a lecture at the University of Lincoln next week on why he believes the journalism of attachment is still relevant.

His work reporting for the BBC in Bosnia made him become critical of neutral reporting of armed conflicts and he will expand on the theme in Lincoln on Monday.

Martin joined the BBC as a reporter in Norwich in 1962, moved to London three years later and during the next 30 years covered 11 conflicts and reported from 80 countries.

He was named Royal Television Society Reporter of the Year in 1977 and was awarded the OBE in 1992.

In 1997 he announced he was leaving the BBC to stand in the general election as an "anti-corruption" candidate, winning the Tatton seat in Cheshire as an Independent MP.

He is an ambassador for UNICEF and a critic of the way journalism works today.

His talk on Monday is part of the university’s Journalists Speak Out on Journalism series.