Joan Savage, variety star who appeared as Greta Garbo in Dad’s Army and in Coronation Street – obituary
By royal request, she sang Noël Coward’s It’s Bound to be Right on the Night on the radio for the Queen Mother's birthday
By royal request, she sang Noël Coward’s It’s Bound to be Right on the Night on the radio for the Queen Mother's birthday
‘If just one job were to be created in every small business, it would solve the employment problem,’ he declared in his maiden speech
In 1983, his report on fat, sugar and salt intakes was blocked by the DoH – a scandal described by one scientist as ‘our own Watergate’
He eschewed toilet breaks: ‘I didn’t eat or drink anything. My belief was if you don’t have any input, you shouldn’t have any output’
She took a riveting job at 65 cents an hour in early 1942 and then returned to the aviation industry after the war, making C-17s at Boeing
Her husband, the Left-wing activist and singer-songwriter Victor Jara, was beaten savagely and his body was found to be riddled with bullets
He established a Gaelic college on Skye, gave tours of historic sites, wrote books and presented radio and television programmes
‘He has no principles,’ she said of her brother. ‘None. None. His goddamned tweets and lying, oh my God! Donald is cruel’
He had the task of contacting Paul McCartney to see if the rumours were right and that the Beatle had died
He was upset when MPs reacted with personal hostility to his rejecting the claims of many that they had merely acted within the rules
In 1960, with Jacques Piccard, he descended to the deepest point on earth, under such pressure that their Plexiglas window cracked
She was also played a teenager whose sight is restored by Superman, who then takes her on a flight round the world
He wanted his 4,000-acre ranch to be ‘a Lone Star version of an English country estate, preserved for all time’
The play debuted in the US in 1968, broke new ground in its depiction of gay men and attracted huge audiences
A master of the dark arts, he declared: ‘I always preferred to be the butcher rather than the veal’
In Northern Ireland Cliff was praised for his strength of character and leadership in ‘welding’ his force into a ‘dynamic operational unit’
On D-Day she heard over the radio, in uncoded transmission, the repeated declaration: ‘Vive la France, vive l’Angleterre, vive les Allies!’
He had no interest in walking on the Moon, he said: ‘I didn’t care about picking up rocks. I wanted to beat the Soviets’
They dominated pairs competitions in the 1960s and revolutionised the sport, despite official obstruction – and later attacks – in the USSR
In the Battle of Mount Harriet, he ‘set an outstanding example by leading from the front to encourage his section to exploit shock action’