Well-known journalist and promoter of women's issues, Ruby Turberville, has died.

The 80-year-old was a former features writer with the Press & Journal and women's editor with the Evening Express in Aberdeen.

She was born and brought up in Aberdeen but moved to Wirral 11 years ago with her husband Leslie to be nearer her eldest son Eric.

However, it was in her home city that Ruby became a well-known and much-admired writer during the 1960s and 1970s, specialising in women's issues long before it was fashionable to do so.

She began working as a part-time journalist for both the Press & Journal and Evening Express before tasking up a full-time position with the evening paper during the 1960s.

Former Evening Express editor Bob Smith said: "She was a first-class women's editor.

"She was always going ahead and forward thinking. She made the women's page very popular and it had a very big following.

"She also did outside events, which increased her popularity even more. She was very well known in the city.

"She did not just look at her work as a job but got involved and liked to meet her readers."

Ruby retires just over 20 years ago but after moving to Wirral she edited her local church magazine.

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