A regional daily has called for a damehood to be bestowed on Great Britain’s most decorated female Olympian.

Aberdeen’s Evening Express has called for the honour to be given to Katherine Grainger, who was raised in Aberdeenshire, after winning her fifth Olympic medal.

The Evening Express ran an extra edition on Friday, pictured below, to mark Katherine winning silver in the women’s double sculls and the same coloured medla also being won by Aberdeen-born David Florence in the men’s pairs canoe slalom.

The paper’s call for Grainger to be made a dame came in an accompanying leader column.

It reads: “What would be the icing on the cake after becoming the most decorated female British Olympian ever? Well, Dame Katherine Grainger has a certain ring to it.

“If any athlete deserves that honour, it is the North-east’s local rowing hero. She has now bagged medals – four silvers and one gold – at five Olympic Games.

“Her stunning silver yesterday, with sculls partner Vicky Thornley, came after she was all but written off for the UK rowing team in Rio. But her steely determination and astonishing will to succeed saw here come back in spectacular style.

“Katherine is an inspiration, a great ambassador for her sport and the North-east. She deserves a glittering honour to mark her glittering career.”