Jill Gascoine obituary

Stage and screen actor who played DI Maggie Forbes in the pioneering TV police drama The Gentle Touch in the 1980s

Tim Robinson obituary

Writer and cartographer who documented the landscapes of the west coast of Ireland in a series of influential books

John Coates became a leading scholar of the Edwardian writer GK Chesterton

Pioneer of left realism within criminology who questioned state responses to prostitution

Granddaughter of HG Wells who had a love of poetry

Children’s author and illustrator whose Strega Nona books delighted generations of readers

Eccentric aristocrat and chatelain of the Longleat safari park who was a favourite of newspaper gossip columns

Illustrator who with the writer René Goscinny created the much-loved comic books featuring the exploits of Asterix the Gaul

One of the great American country singers who had hits with The Gambler, Lucille and Islands in the Stream

Founder of Aldermaston Pottery who was a noted ceramic scholar

Development geographer whose research focused on households headed by women in the global south

Other lives: Italian film producer and writer

Comedian, actor and presenter of the long-running radio show The News Huddlines

Other lives: Writer, poet and co-founder of feminist publishing house Onlywomen Press who spent years fighting for equal rights in the US