Piers Morgan among former colleagues to pay tribute to ‘brilliant journalist’ and ‘kind man’
Peter Willis, the former editor of the Daily Mirror and founder of the newspaper’s Pride of
Britain awards, has died suddenly aged 54.
He had been at the newspaper group for 23 years, rising up from the world of celebrity reporting to become one of the Mirror’s main executives, with stints as editor of the daily tabloid and its Sunday sister titles.