Glenn Thomas, 49, a media relations co-ordinator for the World Health Organisation and former Granada journalist from Blackpool, was among those killed when a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane was downed over Ukraine.
Friends and former colleagues of a Blackpool man killed in the Malaysian Airlines crash in the Ukraine have been speaking of their shock.
Glenn Thomas, who was 49, was a journalist who had worked for Granada and the BBC in the North West.
He was working as a media officer for the World Health Organisation in Geneva - they and many others he knew and represented paid tribute to him today.
Our correspondent Rob Smith has more:
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