Tributes have been paid to a long serving Welsh councillor - described as one of his home town’s “favourite characters" - who has died suddenly. Hag Harris was a Ceredigion councillor for the Lampeter ward for more than 25 years, and was re-elected for another term in the recent council elections in May.
A popular man in the town, Mr Harris also ran a music store called Hag’s in the centre of Lampeter for years until its closure in 2016. The Labour councillor also served on the local town council, and was mayor of Lampeter on three different occasions.
He was first elected as a county councillor in 1995 and prior to that he had been a member of Dyfed County Council since 1981. He passed away on Tuesday at the age of 66, and tributes have flooded in for someone who was “ever present” in Lampeter.
