Sitting on the Oxford Tube on the way home from London last night, I flicked idly through the Evening Standard. There, on page five, was a single column paying tribute to one of the most outstanding reporters on the paper – Patrick McGowan, who died last week at the age of 60. Pat was a straight-talking Yorkshireman, who joined the Standard in 1978 and for nearly 30 years covered all the ...keep reading