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Letter: Robin Fior's posters for CND
In his fine obituary for Robin Fior, Richard Hollis mentions Fior's association with, and work for, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Committee of 100 at the end of the 1950s and into the...
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Letter: Robin Fior brought fun and an imaginative approach to the workplace
We have lost a creative designer of real influence in Robin Fior, and also an individual of fascinating wit and great intellectual power. Richard Hollis does not dwell on Robin's short salaried life at...
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Letter: Robin Fior's design for student life
Robin Fior was a contemporary and good friend of mine at Harrow, where he first expressed his socialist temperament and visual skills. Jewish, short-statured and short-sighted, with an aversion to team...
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Helen Nicoll obituary
Children's author behind the Meg and Mog series who also founded a successful audiobooks companyHelen Nicoll, who has died aged 74, was best known as the writer of the Meg and Mog books for children....
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Eric Lomax obituary
Prisoner of war who made peace with his tormentor and wrote an acclaimed memoir, The Railway ManThe experience of three and a half years of slave labour and torture as a prisoner of war of the...
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Letter: Malcolm Wicks's work on fuel poverty
At a time when there is discussion about the winter fuel allowance for senior citizens, it would be appropriate to recall the very valuable work that Malcolm Wicks carried out for those suffering from...
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Letter: Malcolm Wicks as education minister
After ministers address trade union conferences, they usually head for the door as fast as they can. Not Malcolm Wicks. When, as minister of higher and further education, he spoke to the often hostile...
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Dame Louise Johnson obituary
Pioneering molecular biologist who shed light on how enzymes, nature's catalysts, do their workDuring a special meeting at the Royal Institution in London in 1965, the first structure of an enzyme,...
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Turhan Bey obituary
Successful 1940s film actor whose exotic roles led fan magazines to dub him 'the Turkish Delight'"Exotic" is the epithet most frequently used to describe the series of Technicolored escapist movies...
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Letters: Leo Kersley obituary
Hugh Kerr writes: I moved to Harlow New Town, Essex, in 1960, soon after Leo Kersley set up his ballet school there. Its reputation quickly spread and Leo and his wife, Janet, became an important part...
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Gilbert O'Sullivan on Big Jim Sullivan: 'His acoustic work was masterful'
There are two types of session guitar players. One reads and only plays what the "dots" say. The other adds that something special and plays notes and solos you dream of.Big Jim Sullivan was such a...
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Alex Karras obituary
Actor, wrestler and American football star whose hardman roles included Mongo in Blazing SaddlesIn Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, the enforcer Mongo rides into town on a Brahma bull, and...
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John Tchicai obituary
Danish-born saxophonist at the heart of the 'new thing' jazz movement of the 1960sWhen the saxophonist John Tchicai, who has died aged 76, performed with local musicians at the Red Rose in Finsbury...
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Harris Savides obituary
Cinematographer at the forefront of digital experimentation and celebrated for his avant-garde work with Gus van SantThe cinematographer Harris Savides, who has died of brain cancer aged 55, brought an...
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Letter: Helen Nicoll obituary
In addition to being an extraordinarily successful author and publisher, Helen Nicoll was an outstanding creator of domestic comfort. Wherever she was living – and in more than 30 years I visited her...
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Major Roy Bates obituary
Buccaneering prince of a disused sea fort which he dubbed the free state of SealandPaddy Roy Bates, better-known as Prince Roy of Sealand – the title he awarded himself 36 years ago – has died aged 91...
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Tony Pawson: Kent batsman and cricket writer dies aged 91
Vic Marks recalls his meetings with Tony Pawson, a self-effacing sportsman who was as modest about his many talents as he was hardworking as the Observer's cricket correspondentTony Pawson, who died on...
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Raoul de Keyser obituary
Belgian artist whose paintings were inspired by American abstract artRaoul de Keyser, who has died aged 82, created paintings that were inspired by American abstract art but nonetheless rooted in his...
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Sir Stuart Bell obituary
Long-serving Labour MP who defended his colleagues in the row over expensesLike many others of his generation, the outspoken Labour MP for Middlesbrough, Stuart Bell, who has died of pancreatic cancer...
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Wendy Greengross obituary
Pioneering counsellor, agony aunt for the Sun and writer on sex educationWendy Greengross, who has died aged 87, was a pioneering counsellor, agony aunt and author of empowering publications about...
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