Career
He died on 24 March 2013 aged 84. Whilst reading the results, Colston inflected his voice to imply the result of a match simply through his sonorous intonation of the home team"s score. Colston read the results out for many years on World of Sport right up to its cancellation.
Soon afterwards the crew had its own results programmes which ran until 1992 with Colston reading the football scores.
By then the results featured on the Saturday team ITN News bulletin which Colston did until 1996 when he joined Sky Sports which he sometimes did the football scores on Soccer Saturday.