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Letter: I often wondered why Ray Price was not inducted into the Country...
More than 60 years ago I spent many evenings listening to crackly American Forces Network broadcasts, hoping to hear Ray Price as he perfected his great voice and honkytonk sound. Country music was...
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The Rev Kenneth Greet
Methodist leader respected for his wisdom and eloquenceIn the early 1980s, after the rejection by the Church of England of yet another unity proposal, the Rev Kenneth Greet led the Methodist team at...
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Roy Oxlade
Painter with a distinctive style characterised by wild, spontaneous brushwork, bold colour and improvised imagesRoy Oxlade, one of the most impressive British painters of the past 50 years, who has...
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Robin Bateman obituary
My father-in-law, Robin Bateman, who has died aged 90, was a career librarian, a wine-maker, traveller, and avid reader and conversationalist. Above all else, though, he was a painter.Although he...
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Silvan Jones obituary
Our father, Silvan Jones, who has died aged 88, was an economist and political campaigner. His letters to newspaper editors, and in particularly to the Guardian, ran into hundreds, spanning the Suez...
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Beryl Markus obituary
My mother, Beryl Markus, who has died aged 82, was called to the bar in 1954 – one of the few women barristers at that time. She was born in Manchester into a large Catholic family, and read law at...
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Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903–2014: remembered by Ed Vulliamy
The Observer writer recalls his life-affirming meeting with the pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer, who died last week aged 110History's handshake had a stronger grip than one might...
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Alain Resnais obituary
Complex and avant-garde French film director best known for Night and Fog and Last Year in MarienbadAlain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite...
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The French arthouse film-maker Alain Resnais, a star of the new wave movement with close to 50 films to his name, has died aged 91
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Tom Margerison obituary
Founder of New Scientist, Sunday Times journalist and BBC broadcaster who made complicated subjects easy to understandA powerful mind coupled with a gift for rendering complex ideas in popular terms...
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Madeleine Sharp obituary
My colleague Madeleine Sharp, with whom I worked on delivering aid to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, has died aged 93. She was a dedicated campaigner for oppressed people all over the world.She was born...
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Ron Smith obituary
Ron Smith, who has died aged 82, was a man of many interests and activities: a lifelong Methodist, a scout and youth club leader, and a man who loved the great outdoors. After a childhood dogged by ill...
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Mat Fox obituary
Mat Fox, who has died of a heart attack aged 57, made things happen for people. He was an enabler and a generous one at that. As a musician, bandleader, teacher and friend to countless young players,...
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Huber Matos obituary
Former Cuban guerrilla comandante who turned against Fidel Castro and became an ardent counter-revolutionary in MiamiOne of the most prominent political prisoners to pass through the jails of Fidel...
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Richard Timberlake obituary
My father, Richard Timberlake, a chartered civil engineer, who has died aged 71, was a transport director with the London-based Lebanese consulting company Dar Al-Handasah and spent a large part of his...
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Leslie Rose obituary
My father, Leslie Rose, who has died after a long illness aged 89, was a man with a huge appetite for life and a deep commitment to secondary education.His first teaching post was at Fairfield grammar...
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Letter: Stuart Hall obituary
I first met Stuart Hall (obituary, 11 February) in 1963 on a Campaign Caravan workshop project with CND in Welwyn Garden City. He edited down his newsletter copy to fit a stencil while I was in the...
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Lynn Jenkinson obituary
My partner, Lynn Jenkinson, who has died of encephalitis aged 71, was one of the first women to become an assistant director at a local education authority, holding that post with Liverpool city...
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Buzz Johnson obituary
Tobago-born writer, activist and founder of the London-based publishing venture Karia PressBuzz Johnson, who has died aged 62 from an arterial haemorrhage, was the founder of Karia Press, one of the...
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Nicholas Brooks obituary
Historian, archaeologist and authority on the Anglo-SaxonsThe Anglo-Saxons retain a powerful grip on English imaginations. The discovery in 2009, just south of Watling Street, the ancient trackway...
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