Regional press man Dyker Thew, one of the first reporters to enter the Belsen concentration camp on its liberation, has died aged 96.

After working as a young reporter in Brighton he became editor of the Lynn News, then known as the Lynn Advertiser, during the Second World War.

His appointment allowed him to take the helm of the newspaper set up by his great-grandfather in 1841. He was the fourth generation of his family to edit the title.

As a war correspondent he went into Belsen with the Allies and interviewed Norfolk Regiment soldiers for the paper.

He left the Lynn News to become managing director of a Colchester paper and then sold insurance until his retirement 32 years ago.

But he continued to write, publishing his first book at the age of 95.

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