Tributes have been paid to former Queen's Guide to the Sands Cedric Robinson MBE following his death at the age of 88.

Mr Robinson spent more than half a century taking people across the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay.

The walks have become a popular means of raising money for charity, with thousands of people taking to the Bay on guided excursions each year.

A spokesman for the Guide over Sands Trust, the charity that provides two Queen's Guides, one each for the Kent and Leven estuaries, said Mr Robinson was 'now at peace and is with his wife, Olive, who he missed so much'.

"Now, Cedric, it is time to rest your sandy feet and keep an eye on us from up there," said the spokesman.

"Your team of marshals, old and new, thought the world of you, Cedric."

Mr Robinson, who took on the role in 1963, passed on the baton to Michael Wilson in 2019.

During his time as Queen's Guide, Mr Robinson took many famous faces across the sands, including the Duke of Edinburgh in 1985.

A spokesman for Bay Search and Rescue (BSAR), based at Flookburgh, said the organisation had lost its 'greatest friend and advocate'.

The spokesman said Mr Robinson had helped BSAR in the late 1990s by finding the team its first base in the old wartime fire station at Grange.

"A man who cared for it [the Bay], respected it, and educated thousands who he guided across it," said the spokesman.

"His passing is a huge loss to the area and all those who knew him, we are honoured to have known him."

Mr Robinson was an honourary graduate of Lancaster University, which paid tribute to him by saying 'our local area has lost one of its best'.

A spokesman for Bay Hospitals Charity, which supports the work of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, described Mr Robinson as 'kind-hearted' and 'one of life's true gentlemen'.

"We are lucky to have known the amazing man that was Cedric Robinson," said the spokesman.