Tributes have been paid to a long-serving altar server, who received formal recognition of his efforts from the queen just days before he died.

Paul Rayner, who first joined the choir of Norwich Cathedral in 1949 as a boy, was in the final cohort of the Cathedral Choir School.

In 1954, he left the choir and became a server at St George’s Church in Tombland, Norwich, as well as a member of the Guild of Servers of Norwich Cathedral.

Mr Rayner, who also married his wife in the cathedral, continued........

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