"True icon of decent politics": Tributes paid to former West Midlands MP Dr Richard Taylor following death
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Tributes have been paid to a former independent MP who fought to preserve hospital services in his community.
Dr Richard Taylor, who served as an independent MP for Wyre Forest for nine years, has died at the age of 89.