Former Norwich Evening News sub-editor David Williams has died, aged 70.

During a long career the former regional press journalist, who retired in 1993, had been chief sub-editor at the Evening News.

He also worked as a sub-editor at its sister paper, the Eastern Daily Press, after taking a break from newspapers in the late 1960s to start an expedition business in Norway, ferrying tourists by Land Rover into the Arctic Circle.

David was also a respected National Union of Journalists activist who campaigned for better pay and conditions, and played an active role within the community of Winfarthing, near Diss, where he lived.

He was lay vice-chairman of the PCC, chairman of governors at the village school, parish tree warden and footpath officer for the northern end of the Icknield Way, and also edited parish magazine the Cock Crow for more than 20 years.

Paying tribute to David, his friend Bruce Robinson said: "He was a great man, very affable and friendly and very enmeshed within the community.

"His loss is a blow to the village as well as everyone else."

David leaves a wife, Marion, and daughters Brigitte and Ingrid.

A funeral service will be held at Winfarthing church at 2pm on Tuesday, June 28.