Sandra Woods made this announcement last night:-
Paul died at 5:00 p.m. today in St. Peter's Hospice. He was one in a million and I feel so privileged to have known him and shared his life. His friends meant the world to him, and all of you should realise how important you were to him.

Paul was a hugely likeable bloke. The life and soul of the excellent Bristol Morris Men and widely liked and admired in the wider folk scene in Britain.

My main contact with him was through the Facebook group The Shirley Collins Appreciation Group Paul set this up on his own but asked me to become joint administrator saying "Who knows when I may be run over by a Bristol bus?"

Well, it wasn't an form of transport that got him but that evil disease that has accounted for so many of my (all of our) friends.The way he related the progress of this disease in an uncomplaining sometimes even jokey way was one indication of his great love of life. Having been told that he had not long to live, he posted, "I'd better not go before I know the outcome of this Dr. Who series!"

I feel sure that there will be many tributes here from the many people who knew and admired this lovely, happy man.