Tributes paid to Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend - 'loved by generations'

Tributes have been paid to Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend who has died aged 68.

Townsend, who was left blind after suffering from diabetes for many years, achieved global success in 1982 with the publication of her best-known work, The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4.

The author’s publishers, Penguin Books, said she died “surrounded by her family” after suffering a stroke.