Artist and former TV newsreader Rodney Milgate dies

By Andrew Taylor
Updated September 23 2014 - 5:08pm, first published 4:24pm
"I'll haunt you if you have a funeral service for me": Robert Milgate. Photo: Sahlan Hayes
"I'll haunt you if you have a funeral service for me": Robert Milgate. Photo: Sahlan Hayes
"I'll haunt you if you have a funeral service for me": Robert Milgate. Photo: Sahlan Hayes
"I'll haunt you if you have a funeral service for me": Robert Milgate. Photo: Sahlan Hayes
"I'll haunt you if you have a funeral service for me": Robert Milgate. Photo: Sahlan Hayes
"I'll haunt you if you have a funeral service for me": Robert Milgate. Photo: Sahlan Hayes

Award-winning artist and former television newsreader Rodney Milgate drew inspiration from the Bible for his paintings. But his wife, actress Dinah Shearing, says he was agnostic and once told her: "I'll come back and haunt you if you have a funeral service for me".

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