Local radio DJ Tim Gough died suddenly during the broadcast of his breakfast show on Monday, it has been confirmed.
The 55-year-old was hosting his show on GenX Radio Suffolk when he suffered a suspected heart attack at around 7.50am while broadcasting from a studio at his home.
James Hazel, the station's MD, told RadioToday: "Tim has been on the radio since the 80s and had come out of radio retirement to fully involve himself in our project from the beginning, to bring local commercial radio back to his beloved Suffolk and was hugely excited for our DAB launch at the end of the month.
"To know Tim personally, as I did very closely for over 30 years, was to know a warm, caring, fun guy who myself and my family loved dearly. We are heart broken by the news.
"I know his family are enormously comforted by the hundreds of loving messages that have been received and have asked for privacy at this devastating time."
Gough is survived by his son, sister, brother and mother.
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