A POLITICAL activist who handed his war medals back to an MP in protest against the invasion of Iraq has died.
Reg Weston, who lived in Villa Road, Higham for 25 years, died aged 93 following a short illness.
After leaving school at the age of 15, he started a career in journalism as a trainee reporter in Fleet Street.
Mr Weston worked as a sub-editor on the Daily Worker and the Daily Sketch and became the editor of several north-london weekly newspapers He was a signaller in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, serving in north Africa and Italy.
Politically active since his youth, he joined the Communist Party in 1935 and was imprisoned for refusing to pay the Poll Tax in 1991.
Mr Weston, whose wife Constance died in 1978, was a Higham Parish Council clerk during the 1970s.
In 2003, Mr Weston returned medals for service in Britain to then Gravesham MP Chris Pond to voice his disgust at the MP's support for the war in Iraq.
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