My friend Lorry Leader, who has died from lung
cancer aged 67, was an administrator at the Guardian for nearly 20 years. She was a much-loved colleague and sympathetic ally to countless reporters and editors.
She was born Sarah Loretta Leader in St Pancras, north
London, to Samuel Leader, a teacher, who had arrived in the
UK in 1913 from Poland, and his wife, Bertha (nee Schwarz), who came to
Britain from Vienna after the Anschluss in 1938.