The pilot who died in today’s dramatic central London helicopter crash worked on Hollywood films and was described as a hero and “one of the best” by former colleagues today.

Brewer Guinness was prepared to drop associations with Ireland and promote itself as an English company during the Falklands crisis, state papers have revealed.

Brewer Guinness was prepared to drop associations with Ireland and promote itself as an English company in the 1980s because of the IRA bombing campaigns, state papers have revealed.