Big-haired, quick-witted singer and songwriter, who was also a successful businesswoman, philanthropist and Glastonbury ‘legend’
Artist known for psychedelic polka dots and infinity room installations, who began painting as a form of therapy for her childhood hallucinations, dies aged 97
Russian minister of defence with a brief to modernise who then became deputy prime minister to his old friend Vladimir Putin
Performer who played the transvestite Dr Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Show, whose erotic villainy inspired the film’s cult-like fandom, dies aged 80
Buccaneering structural engineer whose foundation solutions for Centre Point made generations of towers in the city possible dies aged 95
Performer who starred in the Tooting sitcom opposite her real-life husband Robert Lindsay and later started a ‘popular front’ in Kent, dies aged 76
Methodist minister who braved prison beatings and a disfiguring car crash to become the most prominent white activist in the state, dies aged 89
Speedy back who was a member of the side that won the 1960 World Cup and said racism drove him out of rugby union, dies aged 92
Roadie turned publican who transformed a remote Devon inn into one of the country’s most unlikely and beloved rock venues dies aged 85
Ebullient wine writer, broadcaster and tasting powerhouse who championed accessible connoisseurship before reinventing the alcohol-free market dies aged 58
Ex-husband of the City superwoman Nicola Horlick and former banker who won a huge deal for Covid PPE that was largely unused dies aged 65
