Tributes to former BBC local radio presenter Emma Britton

Tributes have been paid to a BBC presenter, described as "the best of local radio", who has died. Emma Britton, 52, who previously hosted the breakfast programmes for both BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset, was diagnosed with incurable stage four lung cancer in April, 2025. She died peacefully surrounded by her loved ones at Musgrove Park Hospital on Saturday. Her family, posting on Facebook, said they were "heartbroken". Gareth Roberts, executive editor of both stations, described Emma as a "genuine, warm presenter" who was an "amazing colleague and a great friend to many". Stephanie Marshall, Head of BBC West, said Emma was a "a true force of nature". Marshall added: "Emma was Mrs Bridgwater, always doing her hometown and Somerset proud. "She will be painfully missed but completely unforgettable, and the world while poorer without her, we are far better off for her having been in it, if only it could have been for a bit longer." Roberts added: "Emma was quite simply the best of BBC local radio. "A genuine, warm presenter who not only lived here in the West but who really cared about the communities in Somerset and Bristol with a passion that leaped out of the radio." On Fa