Tributes paid to the founder of Oakham Tyres Len Ellis who lived in Ashwell in Rutland for 87 years

A family hopes to instal a memorial bench and plant a tree in honour of their father who lived in Rutland for 87 years.

Len Ellis moved to Ashwell in 1933 when his father took a job as a chauffeur, and he remained in the village ever since.

He died at Peterborough City Hospital on December 9 aged 89.