My father, Jim Woodward-Nutt, who has died aged 90, was a television engineer who began his career at the BBC. He went on to set up the first colour television service at a British university, and joined Racecourse Technical Services as head television engineer, working on its coverage of horse race meetings all over the UK.
Alongside his TV work Jim was a busy local politician with the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat parties, serving as a councillor in Aberdeen for five years in the 1980s, and was a champion of consumers, including as a member of the Scottish Consumer Council.
