Tributes paid to 'icon' Chez

TRIBUTES have been paid to a shining light of the local music scene.

Mother-of-two Chez Nash, 51, from Wollaston Road, Cleethorpes, died from cancer on Tuesday.

The former taxi driver and barmaid at the Spider's Web pub, Cleethorpes, will be best remembered for playing in local bands such as Starvin' Sid and the Infernal Blues, and later in The Honey Badgers.

Her husband, John, 50, said: "She lived in Cleethorpes her whole life and went to the local grammar school and art college.

"She always had an interest in art and did a lot of paintings.

"She organised a lot of events, including an alternative Live Aid at The Submarine Pub, in Cleethorpes, and transformed the Spider's Web pub to put on a pantomime to raise money for Dr Mack's Cancer Fund. She organised it right from the start to finish."

She be fondly remembered as mum to Ben, 27, and Kai, 33 and grandmother to Ellie 10.

Ben said: "She was a fine mum.

"She was not what you would call a 'mumsy' mum, but a good friend as well.

"I remember her taking me along to Glastonbury at eight, and going on a trip around Australia, just the two of us.

"When I was older, about 18 or 19, the age divide just was not there. That was the most important thing about her.

"One night, she and dad came home from the pub in the middle of a storm.

"She told us to grab some tins and we all went out and got under a cover on the shed roof, watching the thunder and lightning.

"That moment sums her up."