Tributes paid to South Ribble councillor

Councillor Ken Jones, who made headlines last year for declaring a climate emergency in South Ribble, has died at the age of 72. 

Ken’s public work began in the 1970s where he became parish councillor in Shavington in Cheshire. He was the chairman of the Village Festival Committee and introduced a local newspaper.

He was based in London between 1988 and 2008, during which he extensively travelled the world building television stations and organising major sporting events. He returned to South Ribble in 2008, and with his wife Sue was elected local councillor in South Ribble’s St Ambrose Ward in 2011.

Throughout his tenure as local Councillor along with his role in Council, Ken has sat as chair of the Licensing and Public Safety Committee and the Taxi Trade Forum and has sat on the Planning, Scrutiny and Standards Committee along with the Leyland My Neighbourhood Area Forum.