STOCKTON North MP Frank Cook says the town will be a poorer place without community activist Doris Gibbs, who has died aged 82.
He said the one-time delegate to the European Pensioners' Parliament had been "a wonderful individual with courage, commitment, a willingness to speak her mind, but always to respect other people's views".
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