BRADFORD-BORN House of Lords life peer Lord Tony Greaves has died aged 78.

Emergency services were called to his home in Trawden just before 10am on Tuesday, after receiving reports of a sudden death.

Lord Greaves was a member of Lancashire County Council for 25 years, and local councillor on Colne Borough Council and subsequently on Pendle Borough Council, on which he served until his death.

The avid Bradford (Park Avenue) fan was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield before attending Hertford College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA in Geography.

He was an advocate of social liberalism, and went on record opposing some of the reforms to his party brought about by Sir Menzies Campbell and Nick Clegg.

Lord Greaves was involved in establishing a motion at the Liberal Assembly in 1970 which committed the Liberal Party to pursuing community politics.

He was made a life peer in 2000 as Baron Greaves, of Pendle in the County of Lancashire.

His death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be passed onto HM Coroner in due course.