Many years to the Williams dies 62

1. April 2011 last updated at 10: 56 GMT-Brynle Williams played a leading role in the fuel protests 11 years AgoLong Assembly Member for North Wales Brynle Williams at the age of 62 has died.

Mr. Williams has been in public as the farmer, the fuel protests led in September 2000.

He was a conservative AM since 2003 and been Rural Affairs spokesman.

David Cameron describes him as a "Straight talker and a great loss to the Assembly and to Wales". First Minister Carwyn Jones said he was "colorful" and a "hard Battler".

Tory Welsh Assembly leader Nick Bourne said Mr Williams was "immensely popular" across all parties.

Lord of Williams of his wife Mary and a son is born in Cilcain in the vicinity of mold, Flintshire, and daughter survived.

Sheep and cattle farmer, Mr. Williams was an expert in the Welsh cobs and member of the Council of the Welsh Pony and cob society.

In the 2000 fuel protests, he rose as spokesman for the farmers protest at Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

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he will be reminded of his Assembly colleagues across the political spectrum with great affection "

end quote Prime Minister Carwyn Jones from the Group picketing the site after seven days and the action triggered similar protests at oil sites around the UK."

The protests were not his first experience of direct action in pursuit of the farming lobby.

He was leading activist at the 1997 protest against the importation of beef in Holyhead.

Speaking in Swansea, paid tribute to the Prime Minister Mr Williams as "a giant of a man in every sense of the word" and as someone "with a great passion".

Assembly party leader Nick Bourne said: "he was a great man in all respects, immensely popular with members of the Assembly Chamber."

"He was extremely proud of Wales and England, and the Assembly, and just loved it."

'Honourable and decent'

"He had a direct line to the rural Wales." "He was a very proud fellow, he was passionate about country life, he was passionate about the Welsh language."

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he will be reminded of his Assembly colleagues across the political spectrum with great affection "

first Minister Carwyn Jones quote at the end, Mr. Bourne said he felt the Assembly would be a"poorer"place without his colleague."

"It is very sad." He was very unique figure in Welsh politics, "he added."

First Minister Carwyn Jones said he was "deeply saddened".

"He was a colourful character on the Welsh political scene and a tough Battler and campaigner for the things of which he was passionate,", said Mr Jones.

"He is reminded Assembly across the political spectrum with great affection by his peers." "My thoughts and sympathies are with his family on this sad day."

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones said: "Brynle's a question be handed the great sadness of all political parties."

"I will be his contagious enthusiasm as a to the and a thoroughly respectable and decent man."

"He was a copy of a man, his community in the National Assembly, and made a large contribution to ensure that the people of the North East is in particular a part of Wales development democracy."

"Agriculture issues"

Welsh Lib Dem Kirsty Williams called a "warm and real character" Mr Williams and a "strong advocate for rural Wales and the industrial agriculture".

"I the Valentine's day will always remember night when my husband and I in Cardiff after an international rugby game and are looking for a romantic dinner for two were."

"Brynle, with his wife, Mary, discovered us and decided to join us." A discussion on issues the two husbands spent all evening locked agriculture. "Mary neither I had that Valentine's evening, the we for planned had."

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