A newspaper journalist who previously worked in Bermuda and went on to attract notoriety in the UK by being sacked for going on strike has died at the age of 75.

Ruth Jones came to Bermuda in the mid-1960s where she worked at The Royal Gazette and made an unsuccessful attempt to organise the first union chapel in the paper’s history. In 1967 Mrs Jones married Stan Jones, another reporter from this newspaper, and their daughter Miriam was born later in Bermuda.

Former colleague Charles Webbe described Mrs Jones as a “quiet professional” who was well liked.

“I worked with Ruth for a number of years at The Royal Gazette and always found her to be gentle and easy going,” said Mr Webbe. “She was quietly spoken and we often covered the courts together. She was always diligent and professional and nice to work with.”

Mrs Jones later returned to England where she started working for the Nottingham Evening Post as court reporter from 1970 to 1978.

She was one of 28 journalists who was sacked by the Nottingham Evening Post after joining the provincial journalists’ national strike that began on December 5, 1978.

The dispute ended six weeks later and the Post was the only paper in the country not to take back its journalists when the strike ended.

After losing her job Mrs Jones joined the National Union of Journalist-backed independent paper the Nottingham News where she was a reporter from 1979 until 1982. She moved to work at Gems News service, where she stayed for a number of years.

Her death was widely reported on journalist websites in the UK, including the NUJ website and Hold The Front Page.