Stan Royle, former Manchester Evening News picture editor, has died aged 78 in Stranraer, peacefully at home. He had suffered a heart attack three years ago and was revived by paramedics.

Stanley Ashton Royle was born in Chorlton Cum Hardy on 25 July, 1927, and started in newspapers with the Kemsley Press in York in 1950, moving swiftly to the York Evening Press, where he met Rene and married in 1953.

A sign of fun times ahead, the wedding car had ‘Aisle Change Hymn’