Tributes have been paid to one of the county’s most prominent public health experts following his death. It has been announced that James Williams died in hospital after a short illness – he was in his late 50s. The former soldier worked as Medway Council’s director of public health for seven years – and helped shepherd the Towns through the pandemic. His ambition was to improve community health and wellbeing and under his leadership his team supported tens of thousands of residents through the multi-award-winning A Better Medway programmes. He will be remembered for his leadership in Medway a…