Hollywood director Ron Howard has led tributes to Oscar-winning Titanic composer James Horner, who has died at the age of 61.

We offer our musical tribute to the late Oscar-winning composer James Horner, who died this morning aged 61.

A single-engine plane registered to Oscar-winning Titanic composer James Horner has crashed in Southern California, but the identity of the one person who died has not been released.

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We offer our musical tribute to the late Oscar-winning composer James Horner, who died this morning aged 61.