After leaving News International, Bert Hardy joined London's Evening Standard as chief executive, helping to win the capital's newspaper war with Robert Maxwell who had launched a rival ...

Bert. You were right and I was wrong." Herbert Charles Hardy was born into a working-class family at Mill Hill, north London, on December 13 1928. As boys, he and his older brother found some ...

They've been great days, all of them." David McKittrick Herbert Charles (Bert) Hardy, newspaper executive: born London 13 December 1928; chief executive, News International, 1969-79; chief ...