BEST-selling author Deric Longden has died aged 77.
He collapsed at home in Marsh and passed away in hospital.
Mr Longden was diagnosed with terminal cancer last November.
Click here to read our interview with the authoer after the diagnosis.
He leaves a wife Aileen and two children, Sally and Nick, from his first marriage to Diana. Her death from ME inspired his best seller Diana’s Story.
The man behind the Emmy-award-winning Lost For Words had been in declining health for the last 10 years.
He had suffered a series of mini-strokes which robbed him of the ability to write.
He was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. It was forced into remission by radiotherapy but a scan last November 12 revealed the tumour had returned.
