Nigel Scott

Mr Scott was well-known and well-liked amongst the business community, and had won a number of awards for his journalism during his 21 years on the newspaper.

He was candid about his illness in his weekly column, and chronicled his struggles with characteristic good humour.

Mr Scott was born in Scunthorpe. His family moved to Leeds when he was five, and he attended school inWoodlesford and Wrenthorpe. At 17, he followed his mother into journalism.

After completing a training course in Sheffield, he worked on the Pontefract and Castleford Express, Wakefield Express and Leeds Weekly News, before joining the Yorkshire Evening Post as a reporter in 1988.

In 1996 he was appointed business correspondent and later became business editor.

As a business and financial journalist he won a string of awards including the title of UK Press Gazette Financial Journalist of the Year in 1998.

He was also named, at various times, Northern Business Newspaper Journalist of the year, BT Business Reporter of the Year and Yorkshire Bank Northern Business Journalist of the Year.

Mr Scott leaves his wife, Melanie, two daughters, Emily and Eleanor, and his parents, Malcolm and Margaret.

His funeral service will take place at Pontefract Crematorium next Tuesday, January 5, at 10.30am.