TRIBUTE has been paid to the ‘bubbly and lively’ former Mayoress of Clitheroe who died from coronavirus last week. Singapore-born Maria Berryman passed away in the Royal Blackburn Hospital on January 4 having fallen ill on December 20. The 57-year-old leaves her husband, Ribble Valley Councillor David Berryman, and two children - Andrew, 34, and Jennifer,31. Mrs Berryman worked for Hain Daniels in Clitheroe and volunteered at the local RSPCA branch. She was her husband’s Mayoress when he was Mayor of Clitheroe Town Council from 2007 to 2009. His successor in the post and current leader of the town council Cllr Mary Robinson said: “She was very popular in Clitheroe.