Tributes were paid tonight to British broadcasting standards campaigner Mrs Mary Whitehouse, who has died aged 91.
She died today at the Abberton Manor Nursing Home in Colchester, Essex, after a long illness.
A spokesman at the home, where she had been resident since December 1999, said: "She passed away peacefully earlier today. She had become increasingly frail in recent times."
Mrs Whitehouse became the scourge of broadcasters after starting her Clean Up TV Campaign in 1964.
The campaign became the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association the following year and she acted as its president until stepping down in 1994.
The NVLA has since changed its name to Mediawatch, and the organisation's director Mr John Beyer praised her as "profoundly compassionate" and spoke glowingly of her work.
He said: "Above all she was concerned that children and young people were allowed to mature and grow up at their own rate rather than have it imposed from outside."
A spokesman for the BBC said Mrs Whitehouse "kept broadcasters on their toes with her feisty and dedicated campaigning style".
While Ms Patricia Hodgson, chief executive of the Independent Television Commission, said: "Mary Whitehouse showed great courage in campaigning for values she believed in when they were not fashionable."
Lord Grade, the ex-chief executive of Channel 4 and former controller of BBC1, described her as "courageous" but ineffectual.
Others who added their voices to the tributes included the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey; entertainer Bruce Forsyth; and British shadow culture secretary Mr Tim Yeo.
Mrs Whitehouse leaves three sons.
PA