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Legendary BBC Radio 2 presenter Brian Hayes has died aged 87, it has been announced.

The presenter's five-decade career saw him lead some of the most influential radio output of his era, including the phone-in show on LBC radio. Hayes was born in Perth in Australia before he moved to Britain in the early 1970s.

He joined Capital radio as a producer when the station launched in 1973 then moved into a presenting role, the Mirror reports. He made his name when he started to present the morning interview and phone-in show on LBC.

From 1990 on, Hayes could be heard on various stations including a presenting spot on appeared on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show throughout 1992, but left the show at the year's end due apparently to unpopularity - being replaced by late Irish broad

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