Councillor;

Born: September 22, 1948; Died: July 13, 2012.

Charles Kennedy, who has died aged 63, was a campaigning councillor whose dedication to his community was curbed only by a personal battle with cancer.

The leader of the campaign to save Glasgow's Stobhill Hospital, he also fought for the new facility to offer chemotherapy – never dreaming that he would one day need the treatment.

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