TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular great-grandmother who helped set up an award-winning ice-cream business.

Brenda Moore, who started Brymor Ice Cream with her husband Brian in the 1980s, died last Tuesday, aged 74.

Mr Moore died in April, at the age of 76.

The couple’s son, Robert, who runs the ice-cream parlour at High Jervaulx Farm, near Masham, with his wife, Diane, paid tribute to his parents’ passion for their business.

He said: “They lived and worked together for 50 years and they did everything together, from going to see customers, to working on new flavours to actually making the ice-cream.”

Mr and Mrs Moore started their business in the village of Weeton, near Wetherby.

It quickly outgrew that location, and the couple moved to the Yorkshire Dales.

The couple are survived by Robert, their other two children, Julie and Peter, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.