TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular former hotel owner in Stow-on-the-Wold who has died. Sandra Elliott, known to many as Sam, died at the age of 76 on December 26 last year. She owned the Grapevine Hotel in Stow, which is now called The Sheep on Sheep Street, for more than 20 years, and received an OBE for her work with Investors in People UK and the National Training Task Force, where she was on the board. Her funeral is taking place today in Cheltenham. Sandra has four children, Mark, Ollie, Joe and Paul, and four grandchildren. Her ex-husband Martin Elliott, said she was a "much loved and wonderful woman".