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Still best after all these years; Ann Leslie has won yet another press award - even in a culture obsessed with youth, nothing can replace experience.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20020501
Author:Trelford, Donald

Byline: DONALD TRELFORD

by Donald Trelford Former editor of The Observer

THE AGE of the war correspondent as hero is clearly over," Phillip Knightley concluded in The First Casualty, his classic history of war reporting. Not yet, it seems - as long as the likes of Bill Deedes, Ann Leslie, Jon Swain, Marie Colvin and Robert Fisk, among others, are still around.

This week Leslie won the Edgar Wallace trophy at the London Press Club's annual awards, an honour that went to Deedes a year ago.

"This business isn't for grownups," said the Daily Mail's Ann Leslie of ...

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