Tributes have begun pouring in for Mayor of Hamilton Jay Bluck who died today.

He had been elected to the top job at City Hall just four months ago.

Mr. Bluck had been fighting for his life at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital since being admitted early on Wednesday morning after falling ill at his Somerset home. It is understood his family were with him when he died in the Intensive Care Unit.

Full coverage of the tributes being paid to Mr. Bluck will be run in tomorrow's edition of The Royal Gazette.