TRIBUTES were paid tonight to two former councillors who died since the last time the full authority met.

Councillor Mike Gibbons, the Lord Mayor of Bradford, told the full meeting of Bradford Council that Valerie Binney, who served the Thornton and Allerton wards as a Conservative for 19 years, "embodied everything good in a councillor", and spoke of the "considered and dedicated" approach of Liberal Democrat Grahame Thornton to constituents in his Baildon ward.