A former deputy editor of the Bury Free Press and editor of The Citizen has died suddenly, just weeks after settling in to his new home in the south of France.
Colin Lucas, 64, who worked for four of Anglia Newspapers' titles, came to East Anglia as a reporter in the late 1960s from Bournemouth, to work on the Bury Free Press.
He had a short spell on the Cambridge Evening News but returned to Bury where he reported on Thetford for several years before becoming news editor and then deputy editor.
He spent some time as promotions manager for the paper in the 1980s, during which he organised the Bury Motor Show.
He then became editor of the Bury Citizen, but moved to become editor at the Haverhill Echo in January 1991. In 2002 he went on to become editor of the Newmarket Journal until 2005.
He and his wife Maggie lived in Newmarket but emigrated five weeks ago to live in a village in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
He died suddenly at home on Monday evening.
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