A features writer who counted Margaret Thatcher among her interviewees has died aged 81.

Tributes have been paid to Lynn Montgomery, who worked at Aberdeen sister dailies the Press & Journal and Evening Express and also had a spell with the Glasgow Herald.

Although born in England, where she began her career, Lynn was known for embracing her adopted home in Scotland.

She left journalism around 1972 to start a family, before returning to work in 1990.

Her son Andrew told the P&J: “Although English, mum embraced the local culture with gusto. She became an avid follower of Scottish ceilidh music and even supported the SNP for a time.

“For some years in the 1960s she also went by the byline, Lynn Lord.”

London-born Lynn, pictured, started her career on the Hitchin Express in the late 1950s before her move to Scotland around 1960.

A mother of three and grandmother of four, she died on 17 February.