A KEIGHLEY-born musician with a "lifelong passion" for playing the bagpipes has died aged 62.

Donald Campbell, who spent the first 14 years of his life in Oakworth and Keighley, was the older brother of former press secretary to Tony Blair Alastair Campbell.

He had schizophrenia, and during the last months of his life had severe breathing problems which ended in respiratory collapse.

His father – also called Donald – was a Keighley-based vet with a practice in Spencer Street.

Mr Campbell originally lived in Oakworth then moved with his family to Laurel Grove, near Devonshire Park.

He played the bagpipes at Keighley Show, in the same year that his father was president of the event.

Paying tribute to his brother, Alastair Campbell said: "We had a very happy childhood all round. But when Donald was maybe 13, our dad had a bad accident.

"A sow broke free from its tether and battered him against a wall, and he was badly injured.

"When he recuperated the workload was too great so he applied for a job with the Ministry of Agriculture and got posted to Leicester.

"It was devastating for all of us, as we loved growing up in Yorkshire."

In his late teens and early 20s Donald Campbell was in the Scots Guards, and served in Northern Ireland.

He later worked at Glasgow University for 27 years, where he was the principal’s official piper and also part of the university security team.

Alastair Campbell said the university had been a model employer for someone coping with severe mental illness.

He said his brother refused to let his illness destroy his life and stayed active and positive.

He added: "Donald's work meant he got to know hundreds of students, loved the banter, taught some of them the pipes, and regularly went round to order anyone with feet on tables to ‘kindly use the carpets.'

"He worked almost all his life. He didn’t like hospital for all the obvious reasons but also because he didn’t like to be a burden on the NHS, which he felt had already given him more than most."