Bob Walker, a former editor of the Evening News in Norwich, has died at his home in Hamilton, New Zealand.

He was 86 and had been suffering from lung cancer.

During a successful journalism career he spent time working at the Yorkshire Post, the Doncaster Chronicle, the Eastern Evening News and the Eastern Daily Press.

He started out at the Doncaster office of the Yorkshire Post in 1936, and after serving in the war he returned to the town to edit the former Doncaster Chronicle.

In 1953 he moved to Norwich and the Evening News, where he spent 11 years as a sub-editor.

During that time he also wrote for the EDP, as a TV and radio critic, and later took over its gossip column Window on East Anglia under the pseudonym Clement Court, before becoming assistant editor of the Evening News in 1970 and editor in 1975.

Bob also founded Chatterbox newspapers for the blind, firstly in Norwich and then New Zealand, where it became the first talking newspaper of its kind.

He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for Community Service at the age of 81 for his work there.