Former BBC journalist and presenter John Milne has died at the age of 72.
He was the face of Reporting Scotland and Newsnight Scotland for many years, and was the first presenter of Good Morning Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland.
Mr Milne was born and brought up in Dundee and educated at Harris Academy.
He began his journalistic career with DC Thomson on the staff of The Evening Telegraph.
He moved to the Scotsman and then, seeking a move into broadcasting, he joined the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, who were setting up an English-language news service in Berne.
He joined the BBC in 1971, first in the Aberdeen office as a reporter, replacing Donnie B MacLeod, who had just been hired by the BBC’s daily Pebble Mill at One TV programme and moved to Glasgow in 1973.
As presenter of Reporting Scotland for 10 years during the 1980s and 1990s, he led the flagship programme’s coverage of Scotland’s major news events. He also reported on the UK-wide Nationwide television news magazine and on the Seven Days and Current Account documentary series.
For much of the 2000s he was a presenter on Newsnight Scotland on BBC2 and he went on to present radio’s Newsweek Scotland on Saturday mornings before retiring in 2007 on his 65th birthday.
He returned to the Dundee area in his retirement, settling in Monifieth where he enjoyed golfing on the local links.
Former colleague and current Reporting Scotland presenter Jackie Bird said: “He was Reporting Scotland.
“I was in awe at working with someone with such a reputation but he turned out to be warm and welcoming, with a fantastically dry sense of humour.
“He was a true Scottish broadcasting great.”
Ken MacQuarrie, director of BBC Scotland, said: “John was renowned for the excellence of his journalism over the many years he worked at BBC Scotland.”
He leaves a wife and two sons.