Baroness Trumpington dies at 96: Tributes flood in for 'trailblazer, heroine and utter joy'

Baroness Trumpington has died at the age of 96. Credit: ITV Anglia

Former Bletchley Park code-breaker and Tory Minister Baroness Trumpington has died aged 96.

Celebrated as one of Parliament's most colourful characters, she was famed for flicking two fingers up at a fellow Tory peer.

She only retired from the House of Lords last year - five decades after she served as a Cambridge councillor.

She's been described as a "trailblazer, heroine" and a "total one off".

During the Second World War, she was a "Land Girl" for David Lloyd George before working in naval intelligence at the Bletchley Park code-breaking headquarters.

Before entering Parliament, Lady Trumpington was a Cambridge councillor, rising to become mayor in 1971.

She took her seat in the Lords in 1980 and was a government whip and minister during several periods in the 1980s and 90s.

She spoke to our Political reporter Phil Hornby in 2014