It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of David Macmillan on Saturday. David was only 53 years old but had been in ill health for some time.

As a Councillor David was elected to serve the Morton ward in May 1999. He was enormously proud of this privilege and worked to make life better for those he represented. He stood again for re-election in 2000 and was, once again, successful. He worked with his fellow Liberal Democrat Councillors in Morton to have the bridge over Wigton Road removed and pedestrian controlled lights installed instead, thus making it safer for the children to cross the road at break and home times from the school. He helped Ralph Aldersey and Peter Farmer, his fellow councillors, to instigate a programme of providing porches to the pensioners’ bungalows. Unfortunately, this ended with Large Scale Voluntary Stock Transfer in December 2002 to Riverside Housing Association.

David was popular and had a great big smile for everyone. His health began to trouble him and he became more involved with working for his church St Paul’s and decided in 2004 to stand down from the council to devote himself more fully to the church work.

David will be missed by all who knew him and the sympathies of the Liberal Democrat Group and the Liberal Democrat Association go out to his family at his sad time.