A former Brighton Evening Argus photographer has died after a lifetime shooting images around the world.

The Argus carried a tribute to John Caston (79), who joined as chief photographer in 1964 and went on to become picture editor, a post he held until his retirement in 1980.

He grew up in the Surrey area before serving in the RAF during the war.

He went on to work on the Croydon Times and also did freelance work for many of the national newspapers before getting his job at the Argus.

The Argus tribute said: "One of his best-known sets of pictures was of the huge fire that destroyed Hove Town Hall in January 1966.

"He was also widely acclaimed for pictures of a cat tumbling from the top of the old Dials Congregational Church in Dyke Road, Brighton.

"Amazingly, the cat survived a drop of more than 100 feet but died later from shock."

Mr Caston took over the Kensington pub, in Kensington Gardens, Brighton, in 1969 and remained landlord until 1985.

Then, after a spell working for a computer firm, he retired completely, but never stopped snapping pictures, even when his eyesight began to fail in later years.

Photographer Tony Tree, who worked with him at the Argus, said: "I always found John to be one of those amazing picture editors from the old school who never miss a thing.

"Whatever the story in Sussex, John always had a sniff of it from one of his network of contacts. He knew everybody."

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