Heathcote Williams obituary

Poet, dramatist, visionary and pamphleteer whose muse was fuelled by a witty and beautiful anger

Barry Norman obituary

Journalist and film critic with a beguiling ability to reach a mass television audience

Author and creator of Paddington Bear, whose popularity and relevance has lasted six decades

Actor and model who played a vital role in the famously debauched court of the Rolling Stones during the 60s and 70s

Veteran actor best known for playing Norman ‘Cleggy’ Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and voicing Wallace in Wallace and Gromit

Genre-defying novelist and screenwriter whose book Falling Angel became the cult film Angel Heart

Other lives: Gifted musician, songwriter and producer

Newspaper and magazine illustrator who brightened the Soho art and film scene of the 1950s

Director and producer whose 60-year career spanned television, theatre and film – from The Jewel in the Crown to Pinter plays

Comedian whose feigned contempt for the stars had celebrities vying to be ridiculed

TV and film director who won a Bafta award for the BBC play Bar Mitzvah Boy

Journalist, author and columnist famed for his Runyonesque tales from the streets of New York

Actor who made her name with Joan Littlewood and went on to play the nosy neighbour in the 1980s sitcom Fresh Fields

Distinctive supporting actor on television, stage and film

Veteran character actor who appeared in The Italian Job, Prime Suspect and Footballers Wives