John Anderson, no-nonsense Glaswegian who coached Olympians and refereed ITV’s Gladiators – obituary
His catchphrases ‘Contender, ready! Gladiator, ready!’ and ‘On my first whistle…’ were heard in playgrounds across Britain
His catchphrases ‘Contender, ready! Gladiator, ready!’ and ‘On my first whistle…’ were heard in playgrounds across Britain
Though wholly devoted to the Queen, he was never servile or pompous; unlike so many who acquire royal connections, it never went to his head
‘I stood mesmerised by the brief, dreamlike vision, my heart beating rapidly, hands shaking as I lowered the camera, whispering expletives’
He fought for Manchester’s manufacturers, attacking the MoD for buying Russian ball-bearings and British Rail for buying foreign locomotives
Sung by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Young Girl was a UK No 1 and even outsold Hey Jude, but some US radio stations refused to play it
He and Barry Marshall won a Nobel prize for their work on the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori
Her needle-sharp evocations of Irish life and manners, her sexual candour – and her vivid eye for detail – made her a literary star
A protégé of Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld, he went on to be honoured in France for his work on the French artist and draughtsman
Born in France to British parents, she starred in Italian, French, German and Spanish as well as English films across many genres
He won the Championship title, the Gillette Cup twice, and played his part in two record partnerships
With BirdLife Cyprus he spoke up for the rich biodiversity imperilled by the trapping of blackcaps, stonechats, warblers and robins
When she discovered that Grace was to die, she was extremely unhappy, saying: ‘They’ve done it. They’ve done it. They’ve killed me’
Fluent in German, she listened to enemy VHF voice messages in the North Sea, and fed coded HF transmissions to Bletchley Park
Another client, Somerset Maugham, was ‘mad keen to learn to dive, and was so adventurous that I used to worry that he would hurt himself’
In his book Commando Men, Samain describes commandos racing across treacherous Normandy beaches, rallying to the call of a hunting horn
She was known as ‘the Queen of Swords’, and she told an interviewer, ‘Swords are definitely my weapon of choice’
BB King said that without Mayall ‘a lot of us Black musicians in America would still be catchin’ the hell that we caught long before’
An entertaining debater, with a hatred of pomposity, he proved a doughty opponent of Stratfordian scholars and led the De Vere Society
‘It’s like God planted a musical seed right in that area of Detroit and it just blossomed into a world-loving flower’
A star of the postwar boom in British creativity, he designed stylish, functional and affordable products that improved their users’ lives