The deputy mayor of Hatfield has died aged 62.

Councillor Dave Kay died on Thursday, January 20, at the Isabel Hospice in WGC after a short battle with cancer.

He was elected to the town council in 2008 and became deputy mayor last year.

A town council spokeswoman said: “Cllr Kay will be greatly missed for his enthusiasm for the town council and for Hatfield as a whole.

“The council extends its sympathy to Cllr Kay’s wife Maureen and his family at their loss.”

For more tributes to Cllr Kay, see this week’s Welwyn Hatfield Times, out tomorrow (Wednesday)