Bette Nash, world’s longest-serving flight attendant who kept the spirit of 1950s air travel alive – obituary
Her uniforms ranged from a blue pillbox hat and white gloves in the 1950s to hot pants and go-go boots in the 1970s
Her uniforms ranged from a blue pillbox hat and white gloves in the 1950s to hot pants and go-go boots in the 1970s
The ELC shops sold well-made toys, books and play materials, and Beale employed a child psychologist to ensure that they were educational
They wrote songs for Mary Poppins and Winnie the Pooh and, outside Disney, films including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Magic of Lassie
A heroine in her native Netherlands, her 1964 triumph at Innsbruck was the country’s first Olympic gold since the ‘Flying Housewife’ of 1948
He defeated Arthur Scargill’s campaign to prevent him investing in overseas companies and oil and gas ventures that might compete with coal
After winning his gold, Wilkie ‘wanted to show the British supporters that I was swimming for Britain and that I was proud to be British’
Some saw him as a rebel, others as a publicity-hungry hypocrite, especially after he was found guilty of conducting sham marriages
He made children believe ‘you’re in that scene; it isn’t little bits of plastic, it’s a real aeroplane and you’re flying it,’ said James May
A right-footed left full-back, Schnellinger played in four World Cups and won the Coppa Italia with Roma and then three times with AC Milan
His speech ‘Greed is all right… greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself’ inspired the fictional Gordon Gekko
He introduced the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act of 2004, a private member’s measure to create ‘greener and safer buildings’
Ifield treated the Johnny Mercer ballad I Remember You to his falsetto country-and-western yodelling style with harmonica accompaniment
He was notorious for his alleged role in the ‘retrials’ and extrajudicial killings of up to 30,000 dissidents in 1988
‘The danger of being an absolute ruler is that no one dares tell you that what you have just decreed is not a good idea’
He borrowed the sloping front and idiosyncratic orange from his design for the Porsche 914 Murène. The TGV went on to set rail speed records
‘I’ve played good guys and nice guys, but the truth is I’d rather be nasty than nice. The bad guys are always better written’
Creator of Kerrygold, chair of Heinz and press baron, the Gatsby-esque billionaire was ‘a hero from a time when Ireland was short of heroes’
He became ‘the godfather of independent films’, producing critical hits like Das Boot and Monster as well as the erotic flop 9 1/2 Weeks
She undertook many of her own stunts: ‘It doesn’t matter if you are 100 or 150 feet up… you are going to break your neck anyway’