TRIBUTES have been paid to former BBC director-general Alasdair Milne, who has died at the age of 82.
Mr Milne, whose parents were Scottish, rose through the ranks from a trainee to become controller of BBC Scotland before taking the top job in the corporation in 1981.
He was educated at Winchester College and New College in Oxford, and served as an officer in the British army regiment the Gordon Highlanders from 1949, before returning to study at Oxford.
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