Occasionally truculent writer whose 1970s ITV show upended the cosy, genial image of cops on screen dies aged 90

Irish singer and guitarist who achieved overnight screen fame and won an Oscar for Once, but wrestled with the trappings of stardom, dies aged 56

Understated financial analyst who wrote about the mechanics of the book trade and drank bellinis with Truman Capote

Commando and special forces veteran who beat the press into Port Stanley during the Falklands conflict while executing a daring mercy mission to save an enemy soldier

Member for Gateshead West and Orpington who served as a minister in both the Labour and Conservative governments and worked for Rowntree’s

Entrepreneur who saw the potential of North Sea reserves and transformed his family’s Wood Group dies aged 84

Controversial figure in a black fedora whose exhibitions of preserved corpses and public autopsy appalled critics and fascinated millions dies aged 81

Comedian, musician and presenter who wrote the hit Funky Gibbon and went on to become a popular television birdwatcher dies aged 85

Actress who channelled America’s mid-Seventies neurosis in the soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman dies aged 87

High Court judge who presided over the trial of the racist murderers of Ross Parker and led a landmark Northern Irish inquiry dies aged 96