/ Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Film critic Roger Ebert has died, the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper said in a Twitter posting on Thursday.
Ebert, 70, who had lost his ability to speak and eat after surgeries for thyroid and salivary gland cancer in 2002 and 2003, said earlier this week that his cancer had returned.
"It is with a heavy heart we report that legendary film critic Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) has passed away," the newspaper where Ebert worked for decades said on Twitter.
"There is a hole that can't be filled. One of the greats has left us. Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70," the Chicago Sun-Times added.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant, editing by Cynthia Johnston)