WAR correspondent and former MP Martin Bell will host a special evening paying tribute to an East Lancashire photo-journalist killed while on assignment.

Tim Hetherington, a former pupil of Stonyhurst College in the Ribble Valley, was killed by shrapnel while he was covering the bloody civil war in Libya.

Tim Hetherington: A Remarkable Life will be held at Clitheroe Grand Theatre next Wednesday and will include a screening of the documentary Restrepo for which Tim was nominated for an Oscar in 2011 in the best documentary feature category. The film also won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at prestigious Sundance Film Festival the previous year.

Tim died, aged 40, just a month after attending the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.

As part of the evening, Martin Bell will talk to those who knew Tim including family and colleagues who worked with him in some off the world's most dangerous trouble spots.

Bell, who presented the London premiere of Restrepo, said: “Restrepo is a brilliant film - and Tim Hetherington was a remarkable man.

“I’m looking forward to this event immensely and I hope as many students as possible from Tim’s old college at Stonyhurst will come to hear about his remarkable work.”

Restrepo was named after an American medic shot in the neck while Hetherington filmed the Battle Company of the 173rd American Airborne Regiment in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.

After studying at Stonyhurst College, Tim Hetherington secured a place at Oxford before his career as a photojournalist took off.

He spent several years in Africa and won the award for World Press Photo of the Year in 2007 for a photograph of an exhausted American soldier in the Afghan War.

Following his death, his parents Judith and Alistair set up the Tim Hetherington Trust to promote the continued use of his work and to support new work by other artists in humanitarian fields.

Clitheroe Grand has worked closely with the trust since its inception.

Tim Hetherington: A remarkable life, hosted by Martin Bell OBE. Clitheroe Grand Theatre, Wednesday, March 9. Details from the box office on 01200 421599.