CREWE and Nantwich's veteran Labour MP, Gwyneth Dunwoody has died following a major heart operation.
Mrs Dunwoody, aged 77, was the longest serving female MP in the House of Commons and had undergone major open heart surgery.
Mrs Dunwoody had been the Labour member for Crewe since 1974 and for Crewe and Nantwich since 1983 following an earlier stint as MP for Exeter when she was first elected to Parliament in 1966.
She was known as a highly vocal backbencher, and during the time she chaired the Transport Sub-Committee had proved something of a thorn in the side of the recent Labour leadership.
The MP, a divorcee with two sons and one daughter, was born in Fulham and born into a political family.
Her father Morgan Phillips became General Secretary of the Labour Party, and her mother served as a minister in the House of Lords.
Tributes to the feisty backbencher have been made by leading politicians from all sides of the political arena.
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