Don Leigh - co-founder of Cassidy and Leigh news agency - dies aged 88

Don Leigh - co-founder of Cassidy and Leigh news agency - dies aged 88

Don Leigh, co-founder of one of the newspaper industry’s best-known news and picture agencies, Cassidy and Leigh, died on Friday, three days short of his 89th birthday. He passed peacefully in his sleep after a short illness, ending three years of dementia’s cruel confusion. My father, Don, was a newspaper man through and through. Aged 16, he landed his first job as a cub reporter on the Wythenshawe Recorder on the sprawling Manchester council e…

RIP Don Leigh co-founder of news and picture agency Cassidy and Leigh

Don Leigh at work – a newspaper man through and through. The Cassidy and Leigh agency stamp for their photo prints Don the Magician ‘I had always believed he used the stage name, ‘The Great Donleno.’ Don celebrates his 89th birthday early with his sons … ‘He excitedly told everyone it was going to be the ‘party of the year.’ And it was’. Don Leigh the co-founder of news and picture agency Cassidy and Leigh passed away on Friday 26th September ju…