Former news agency chief Don LeighDon 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 spent many hours sat outside the local ambulance station, ever alert for the sniff of a good story. Don stayed on with Denis’s brother Peter Cassidy, who was the agency’s picture editor for many years. Cassidy and Leigh operated successfully for 42 years. His actress daughter Raquel Cassidy, a star of Downton Abbey, visited Dad just a few days before he died, along with former Cassidy and Leigh reporter Rebekah Jackson.