A long-serving councillor and former leader of the Morecambe Bay Independents has died, aged 63.
David Kerr, who was a city councillor for 16 years, passed away on April 2 after a battle with cancer.
Mr Kerr was an Honorary Alderman of the Lancaster district and an MBI Lancaster city councillor for first Harbour and then Westgate between 1999 and 2015.
He was a cabinet member for housing, housing regeneration, environmental health and social environment on Lancaster City Council, and was deputy mayor of Lancaster in 2013/14.
Mr Kerr was also a Morecambe town councillor and former chairman of the town council, and one of the original elected members after the council was formed in 2009.
His funeral was held on Wednesday.
There will be a minute's silence in his memory at the full meeting of Lancaster City Council on Wednesday April 26.
A spokesperson for the MBIs said Mr Kerr was a "strong spokesman for Morecambe".


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