‘He was for us’: everyone has anecdotes about John Prescott in his village

Residents of Sutton in Hull remember the former MP and deputy prime minister who became ‘a proper Hully’

In the village of Sutton, which John Prescott called home, everybody has their own anecdote about the Labour heavyweight.

For some, it was simply that they had seen him walking his dog, or out and about in his slippers, but others had more colourful stories to tell.