Writer Melanie Reid (right) paid tribute to her former colleague and friend Fidelma Cook, describing her as 'funny and hilariously snobbish'
FUN, feisty and formidable – and the thrower of the “most extravagant parties”.
Friends and former colleagues joined Scottish politicians, celebrities and readers in warm tributes to much-loved Herald columnist Fidelma Cook after her death at the age of 71. She had been suffering from lung cancer.
Her son Pierce Cook-Anderson said she was admitted to hospital in Moissac, in the south of France on Friday and passed away peacefully on Saturday morning in her sleep.
A prolific newspaper and broadcast journalist, she began a weekly column in The Herald in 2006, writing about her new life abroad and quickly became a favourite of readers.