Robert Waterhouse, my namesake, condemned to die | Robert Waterhouse
It is not for me to judge guilt or innocence, but I do know that the Robert Waterhouse to be executed in Florida has not had justiceMy namesake, Robert Waterhouse, is due to be executed by lethal...
View ArticleIan Breach obituary
Former Guardian journalist and television presenter who became one of the BBC's first environment correspondentsSome Guardian journalists stay for life; others move on. Ian Breach, who has died aged...
View ArticleRemembering Ian Breach, the Humanist
Science and environment writer who died in January was a rare sort – a working-class kid who made it in the national media. But Ian will also be remembered as a great Humanist celebrantAlongside family...
View ArticleDavid Bridgman obituary
Between 1961, when London printing started, and 1976, the Guardian was published simultaneously in London and Manchester – where the northern editions, as well as those for Scotland and Ireland, were...
View ArticleSir Gil Thompson obituary
Businessman who transformed Manchester airport from a regional hub into an international one serving 20 million passengers a yearSir Gil Thompson, who has died aged 83, was responsible for transforming...
View ArticleLetters: John Cole at the Guardian and the Observer
Robert Waterhouse writes: Against his better judgment, John Cole took me on as a reporter at the Guardian's offices in Gray's Inn Road in 1968. I'd been art and theatre critic in Manchester and was...
View ArticleIan Hamilton Fazey obituary
My friend and colleague Ian Hamilton Fazey, who has died of a heart attack aged 71, was northern correspondent of the Financial Times during the Thatcher-driven restructuring that transformed industry...
View ArticleJoy Waterhouse obituary
Several years ago, my sister, Joy Waterhouse, who has died aged 66, wrote a short autobiography, This is My Story. She also achieved high grades in music theory and lived independently for some 15...
View ArticleLois Smith obituary
My aunt Lois Smith, who has died aged 96, put her extraordinary energies into people and causes.An enthusiast, a starter, a provocateur, she set the scene in 1948 when she sought out a young Oxford...
View ArticleGebremedhin Bekele obituary
My friend Gebremedhin Bekele, who has died of cancer aged 68, devoted his life to Cheshire Ethiopia, the NGO that is Ethiopia’s principal provider of post-polio rehabilitation.I met him when asked to...
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