Hollywood actor Hugh Grant has led tributes to a champion of assisted suicide from Oxford who died from pancreatic cancer.

The Notting Hill and Love Actually star described Dr Ann McPherson as "amazing" after she died on Saturday aged 65.

The GP was an outspoken campaigner of the terminally ill's right to die with dignity at a time of their choosing.

But it was in her capacity as medical director of the charity healthtalkonline that she met and worked with Grant, who is a patron.

Earlier this month he accepted the British Medical Journal's Communicator of the Year Award on her behalf, along with her husband Klim McPherson.

Grant said: "Ann was an amazing woman - doctor, author, campaigner and founder of the inspired healthtalkonline.

"I am so delighted she nagged me into helping with it and I'm so sorry for her family, for medicine and for the country that she's gone."

The mother-of-three was a patron of Dignity in Dying and founder of Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying (HPAD).

The grandmother-of-five was born in London but lived and worked in Oxford for the last 35 years.