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A voice fit for any occasion
Philip Langridge’s ongoing search for new challenges was a perfect fit with the versatility that saw him, at the start of his career, capitalise on an explosion of interest in early music, writes Richard Fairman
‘World’s worst pharmacist’
He said he was ‘the world’s worst pharmacist’ but Allen McClay went on to found two drugs empires
Ex-Labour leader Michael Foot dies at 96
Michael Foot was seen as too eccentric and leftwing to be prime minister, but such were his charm, wit and erudition that the Labour politician will be remembered with affection even by those who never voted for him
Michael Foot: Rebel who couldn’t resist a cause
In pictures: Michael Foot, former leader of the Labour party, has died at the age of 96, after a lifetime as a rebel who was said to be unable to resist a cause
The unlikely hero
A diplomat of the old school, Percy Cradock played a vital role in negotiating the peaceful handover to China of Hong Kong
US general who hoped to be president
Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and was secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died at the age of 85
Pilot and OBE who helped businesses thrive
Bill Humphrey, whose ideas about the need to support enterprise laid the foundations for the UK government’s Business Link support service, has died aged 86
Paparazzo who chased ‘la dolce vita’ in Rome and New York
Felice Quinto zoomed around 1950s and early 1960s Rome on a bright red Moto Guzzi Lusso motorcycle to sneak photos of film stars or other celebrities. With his friends, he begat the “snappers” who have since hounded celebrities worldwide
Action hero who dispatched Bond villains and Milk Tray
When the going gets too tough for the stars of action films, they turn to the likes of rugged Irishman Martin Grace, one of the world’s top stuntmen, who has died aged 67
Fashion world shaken as designer dies
Alexander McQueen: Razor-sharp tailoring, fantastical imagination and cockney posturing made him one of the most notorious and lauded fashion figures of his generation
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