Tributes to ex-Radio Shropshire presenter Harald Fuchs

Tributes have been paid to a former Radio Shropshire presenter who has died at the age of 63.

Harald Fuchs, who also worked as a producer, was at the station for more than a decade after joining in the mid-1980s.

His widow, Lesley Fuchs, said she had been inundated with messages from former colleagues and friends of Mr Fuchs following his death on May 23 after a short illness. "They have been saying what a wonderful man and what excellent company he was," she said.

Mr Fuchs, of Whitehall Street, Shrewsbury, and formerly of Bridgnorth, was originally a teacher in Wolverhampton, before moving on to a producing role at Beacon Radio in the 1970s.

Following his stint at Radio Shropshire, he spent the later years of his career as a lecturer in visual communications at the University of Central England in Birmingham.

He retired early, moving to Malaga with his wife in 2007 for a short time before returning to Shropshire.

Mrs Fuchs said: "He had a lot of interests. He was into cycling and loved his motorbikes. He had lots of different ones over the years, about 17 in eight years.

"He sailed across the Atlantic in a friend's boat for the Millennium. They went from Gambia to the Caribbean."

The popular entertainer leaves three children — Erica and Sam — from his first marriage and Saskia from his second. He also leaves three grandchildren.