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Marjorie Guthrie obituary
Our mother, the zoologist Marjorie Guthrie, who has died aged 86, was a person of huge energy and wide intellectual interests, who was a pioneer in the male-dominated world of science after the second...
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Jean Costerton obituary
My aunt, Jean Costerton, who has died aged 89, was a teacher and then a headteacher in some of the poorest nursery schools in south London, including Clyde nursery school in Deptford, and Kintore Way...
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Jock Young
Criminologist who questioned conventional ways of thinking about crime and its controlJock Young, who has died aged 71, was one of the world's pre-eminent criminologists. Over four decades, he shaped...
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Brian Hitchen obituary
Ebullient editor of the Daily Star, Sunday Express and National Enquirer who helped find the Great Train Robber Ronnie BiggsBrian Hitchen, who has died aged 77, along with his wife, Nelli, after being...
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Maurice Cockrill obituary
Artist whose range of styles, technique, inventiveness and conviction made him admired as a 'painter's painter'Maurice Cockrill, who has died aged 78, was an artist of exceptional range and ambition....
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Ken Goudie obituary
My friend and former colleague Ken Goudie, who has died aged 87, was a colossus in the BBC's radio newsroom at Broadcasting House, London, for many years. He later became editor of Today and The World...
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Barry Jackson obituary
Actor best known for playing the pathologist George Bullard in Midsomer MurdersThe actor Barry Jackson, who has died aged 75, was a staple of British television for more than 50 years but it was not...
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Letter: Lewis Collins at the Citz
In the early 1970s, Lewis Collins had major roles at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow in Gogol's The Government Inspector and Marlowe's Tamburlaine. He was quoted at the time as saying, "It is the best...
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Letter: Amarjit Chandan on Daniel Weissbort's Indian ink
I came to know Daniel Weissbort closely when Modern Poetry in Translation's Mother Tongues issue came out in 2001. We attended the launch in London and Cambridge – he as introducer, myself as reader. I...
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Claire Grove obituary
My friend Claire Grove, who has died of breast cancer aged 60, was an award-winning radio drama producer, mainly for BBC Radio 4, but also for Radio 3, Radio 2 and the World Service. It was Claire who...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: a life in pictures
The life of the man who led the drive to end apartheid in South Africa and became its first black president
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Gary Younge remembers the ecstatic reaction of ordinary voters to Nelson Mandela in 1994 on the campaign trail in South Africa's first democratic general electionChristian BennettGary Younge
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Nelson Mandela obituary
Hero of the apartheid struggle, he spent 26 years in jail and then became South Africa's first democratically elected president• All the latest reaction to Mandela's deathOne must go back to Dallas,...
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Stan Tracey obituary
Pianist and composer with one of the most distinctive musical signatures on the British jazz sceneIn the early 1970s, and within a few years of the saxophone great Sonny Rollins inquiring in the music...
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Patrick Daunt obituary
Force behind EU action to support the rights of people with disabilitiesPatrick Daunt, who has died aged 88, led the European commission's first initiative in support of disabled people. From 1982 to...
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Martin Sharp obituary
Psychedelic artist, cartoonist and joint founder of the underground magazine OzMartin Sharp, who has died of emphysema aged 71, gave the 1960s counterculture its visual expression. He was Australia's...
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Stan Tracey: passion and vigour for jazz right to the last note
Britain's master jazz pianist, who has died aged 86, sounded as fresh and vital in his latest work as he did 50 years agoNot all jazz musicians make it to their ninth decade, and of those who do, few...
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John Paul obituary
Bioengineer whose meticulous experimental work improved the reliability and strength of hip replacement jointsThe biomedical engineer John Paul, who has died aged 86, played a crucial role in the...
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McDonald Bailey obituary
Trinidad-born sprinter who represented Great Britain at the OlympicsFrom 1946 to 1953, the sprinter Emmanuel McDonald "Mac" Bailey established a record for winning the most national Amateur Athletics...
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Colin Wilson obituary
Britain's first homegrown existentialist star, he had a huge success with his 1956 book, The Outsider• Terry Eagleton on The Outsider, "the book that changed me"• Colin Wilson interview by Lynn Barber...
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