MERSEYSIDE’S writing community have paid tribute to a former Liverpool Daily Post journalist.

Don Sutton, 84, died peacefully at home in Wirral on Friday night surrounded by his family.

He spent nearly 30 years working on the Post as a sub-editor and features editor.

His daughter, Margie Plumb, said her father would be terribly missed.

She told the Post: “He loved his time on the Post and Echo. I think what we’ll miss the most is his dry sense of humour. He was joking up until he died.”

Mrs Plumb added how proud she was of her father, who died from pancreatic cancer, describing him as a “warm and thoughtful” man.

“He was pragmatic, a perfectionist and he could be pedantic that way but everyone who met him said he was a lovely man.

“He was proud to be a life and honorary member of the National Union of Journalists and was always campaigning for the underdog.”

Last night, Merseyside NUJ branch chair Mike Studley said: “Don was a committed trade unionist and an inspiration to us youngsters who were following in his footsteps.

“As well as his chapel activities, he was a driving force in the Liverpool branch and at national level with his service on the National Executive Council, the Provincial Newspapers Industrial Council and the National Council for the Training of Journalists. He will be greatly missed.”

Writer Gordon Morris said: “We will remember Don Sutton for the human and professional qualities he possessed: warmth in his relationships with colleagues and his absolute integrity and adherence to the best journalistic principles.”

Don was born on April 3, 1928 in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, before his family moved to Meols in Wirral when he was three and he later attended Kingsmead School.