Alex Kirby obituary

My father, Alex Kirby, who has died of cancer aged 86, was a well-respected journalist - at the BBC and elsewhere - and, despite beginning his career in the church, ended up dedicating much of his life to chronicling the climate crisis.Following a degree in theology at Keble College, Oxford, he trained for the priesthood at the Anglo-Catholic theological college in Mirfield, Yorkshire, and after ordination, became a deacon in the Isle of Dogs, east London. Continue reading...