Long-serving Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter, who turned the children's show into a television institution, has died at the age of 92.

Joan Maureen “Biddy” Baxter, the pioneering television producer who steered the BBC’s “Blue Peter” for more than two decades and turned it into a defining fixture of British childhood, has died at the age of 92,

Blue Peter legend Biddy Baxter dies aged 92 as tributes pour in for children's TV pioneer - Baxter took over as editor of Blue Peter in 1965, several years after the programme’s launch