Tributes paid to deputy leader of Cumbria County Council Ian Stewart

Tributes have been paid to the deputy leader of Cumbria County Council following his death at the age of 65.

Ian Stewart died suddenly at home near Milnthorpe yesterday.

As well as being deputy leader and leader of the county council's Liberal Democrat group, Mr Stewart was a long-serving South Lakeland District councillor and a member of Beetham Parish Council.