Conrad Voss Bark, the BBC’s ‘man at Westminster’ for 18 years has died.

He began his career in local newspapers, became a pioneer of television and went on to become fishing correspondent to The Times.

Mr Voss Bark, (87), was born near Hull and educated at Hymers College in Hull, then Bristol Grammar School, before leaving to work for chocolate firm Fry’s.

After a spell of unemployment in the 1930s he joined the The Hampstead News and Golders Green Gazette as a junior reporter.

From there he moved to Benn Brothers, working as a sub-editor on trade journals, including Cabinet Maker, of which he became acting editor.

After serving in ambulance crews during the war, in 1943 he joined the Western Daily Press as a sub-editor and moved to The Times four years later, again as a sub.

He joined the news staff at the BBC in 1951 and stayed there 20 years, mostly as parliamentary correspondent, before rejoining The Times in 1979 to write about fishing.

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