TRIBUTES have been paid to a Newton Abbot businessman who died over the weekend.

Frank Wood, 64, who owned the town’s Bar 7 nightclub, is understood to have died at home in his sleep on Friday night.

Friend and Lord of Newton Abbot Borough Town Keith Stokes-Smith said he couldn’t believe the news.

He said: ‘It is a shock to me.

‘I only saw him a few weeks ago and he seemed fine.’