The Isle of Wight branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has paid tribute to Ken “Buzzy” Matthews, who has died. The branch described him as “a wonderful, warm and dedicated chap, one of life’s real characters”. He joined the branch in the early 1990s and went on to hold a string of high-profile roles over the decades that followed. Beer guides and the Wessex chair Buzzy was born in 1939 and led an amazing and varied life. Among his work for CAMRA, he published local beer guides.
