Didcot driving instructor Jim Easton has died of a heart attack, aged 59.

Mr Easton, of the Easton School of Motoring, had lived in the town for 26 years. He died at his home in Churchill Road on March 15.

He was born in Dudonald, Ayrshire, and moved to England in 1963 when he joined the Army.

He met his wife-to-be, Ina, in 1969 in a pub she was working in, in Arborfield, near Reading. The couple married a year later and had two children, James, 20, and Ellen, who suffered from spina bifida and died in 1988, aged 16.

Mr Easton worked for 23 years as a Staff Sgt in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and was treasurer of the Spina Bifida Association for 15 years.