British singer, who retired in 2012, sold nearly 50m records worldwide after breakthrough in 1962
The folk singer-songwriter Roger Whittaker has died at the age of 87.
His greatest hits include Durham Town, The Last Farewell, New World in the Morning and his 1982 version of Wind Beneath My Wings. Worldwide, he sold nearly 50m records since the summer of 1962 when, aged 26, he began writing songs and singing in Welsh folk clubs while studying zoology, biochemistry and marine biology at the University of Bangor.
