COLLEAGUES, clients and friends have been paying tribute to a well-known Harrogate accountant who has died suddenly.

A funeral service was held at St John’s Church in Harrogate last week for former champion runner Simon Giles Pease, a partner at DSC on Princes Square, who died on February 20.

More than 200 people attended the 43-year-old’s funeral.

Mr Pease was a former English Schools 1500m champion who won a middle-distance running athletics scholarship in the mid 1980s to study for an accountan......for the full story register now for free or login below...