Sir Simon Day, who has died aged 88, was a highly influential figure in the West of England as, among many other things, Conservative leader of Devon County Council; he also headed the West Country Television consortium which in 1980 bid to replace Westward TV, which had been crippled by boardroom infighting.
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An inquest at Oxford Coroner s Court heard Sally Cadbury, 76, was trying to trim rose bushes at waterside home when she is believed to have slipped into and drowned in the River Thames.