Sydney Ross Benson (29 September 1948 – 8 March 2005) was a Scottish journalist and gossip columnist known for his personal style.
He returned to London in 1982 in the position of Chief Foreign Correspondent and was named as International Reporter of the Year in the British Press Awards in 1983.
In 1988, Benson was given his own gossip column to rival that of Nigel Dempster of the Daily Mail.
Benson was the ghost writer for George Best's autobiography, The Good, the Bad and the Bubbly, published in 1990.
[5] In 1997, Benson returned to the Daily Mail as a foreign correspondent, winning a London Press Club Award in 2004 for his work covering Iraq.