Former South Wales Argus and Western Daily Press journalist Norrie Drummond has died.

Norrie, who was 59, had most recently worked as a consultant for the media training organisation the Thomson Foundation, and had been working in Afghanistan since December for the Institute of War & Peace Reporting.

He was coming to the end of his engagement when he collapsed, and was treated at a German military hospital in Kabul before being flown back to the UK. He died in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.

Originally from Glasgow, Norrie began his career on the Scottish Daily Express, and he also worked for the New Musical Express before joning the South Wales Argus in Newport in 1971.

Seventeen years later, in 1988, he moved to Bristol to work in the features department of the Western Daily Press where – apart from a six-month sabbatical in North Africa – he remained until 1999.

He joined the Thomson Foundation in 2001 and was a regular lecturer on its Cardiff courses.

He also worked on projects in Sierra Leone, Bangladesh and India.

Norrie lived for 35 years with fellow journalist Annabel Hughes. He is survived by older brother David, a former circulation manager of the Scottish Daily Express. His nephew Alan is a journalist on the Inverness Courier.