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Lucy Hockings announced the death of her colleague and fellow presenter George Alagiah on the BBC's midday news bulletin on Monday.
As well as noting the many awards he won in his hugely successful career, she said those who worked with him would remember him as "thoroughly decent", "unfailingly kind-hearted and always so, so generous".
Alagiah died aged 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.
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