Don't mourn for Joe Strombel. Joe Strombel had a full life. A newspaper man in the best...

[first lines] Funeral Speaker: Don't mourn for Joe Strombel. Joe Strombel had a full life. A newspaper man in the best tradition. A great credit to the Fourth Estate. It didn't matter if the bombs of the war zone were falling, it didn't matter how high up the political scandal went, or how many big corporations or small time racketeers leaned on him. Whatever the risk, if there was a story there, Joe went after it. And he usually got it.

Don't mourn for Joe Strombel. Joe Strombel led a full life. A newspaperman in the best tradition. A great credit to the fourth estate. It didn't matter if the bombs in the war zone were falling. It didn't matter how high up the political scandal went, or how many big corporations or small-time racketeers leaned on him. Whatever the risk, if there was a story there, Joe went after it. And he usually got it. Well, I was with him when the story broke about Prince Charles, and that made him persona non grata with the Royal Family. Except with Diana. They always remained good friends. He did love a woman. Hey, did you know he started as a police reporter? - Did he? - Yeah, he was a bloody good one. One of the best. Maybe the best. I got trapped with Joe once in Afghanistan. Yeah? And we were going to be shot any moment by the Taliban, until, typically, Joe found someone to bribe So we could escape. - Not with his own money, though. - No, no, he got it on expenses. - Plus 10%. - Ten percent. But it did involve us getting out wearing burkas. And, well, we lived to write another day. - Everyone loved him. - Yeah. Not always at British intelligence. No, but he got the information before anyone else. - Yeah, he did. - That's right. Not Richard Nixon, though. Well, wherever you are now, Joe, it won't be the same without you, mate. - To Joe. - Joe Strombel.