Tributes have been paid to a former Newcastle councillor who was a “complete gentleman”.
Peter Leggott has been described as a “lovely man who cared deeply about his local community” after his death, following a battle with cancer. The Liberal Democrat, who died at the age of 76, was a councillor in the East Gosforth ward where he lived from 2008 to 2016.
His former ward colleague Coun Henry Gallagher said: "Peter was a great help to me when I first got elected, mentoring me through those early years. He was a lovely man who cared deeply about his local community. He also had a wonderful dry sense of humour, which he sometimes used expertly in meetings that he chaired, to defuse awkward situations. But I know that the thing that made him happiest was being a grandad."
