A SCARBOROUGH man who spent several years as a Fleet Street journalist has died at the age of 103.
David Sowray, of Greylands Park Drive, Scarborough, originally worked for Marconi the radio company.
He found fame as the first person to send a Morse code message across the Atlantic.
He later worked for the Daily Express and Northcliffe Newspapers before joining the Irish Independent as night editor.
His wife, Bea, who survives him, is in her nineties and the couple had been married for nearly 70 years.
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