WL Webb obituary

Guardian journalist and literary editor with a lifelong commitment to leftwing politics, choral singing and nuclear disarmament

Michael Powell obituary

Other lives: Librarian who transformed Chetham’s Library in Manchester into an internationally recognised institution

Founder of L’Arche communities for adults with learning disabilities

Other lives: Environmental journalist and author

Ecologist and herpetologist who did much to pioneer the conservation of terrestrial species in Wales

Other lives: Leading light in Marie Stopes International who set up pioneering health clinics

Photographer who concentrated on the high-density architecture of Hong Kong

Leading Australian poet whose work celebrated the rural world

Prolific writer whose novel The War of the Roses was turned into a hit film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner

American science fiction writer whose work contained haunted, potent myths about human destiny

Novelist and TV writer best known for the ‘folk horror’ Robin Redbreast, which was broadcast on the BBC in 1970

Doctor, General Medical Council ‘rebel’ and broadcaster who appeared on Stop the Week and My Word!

Lawyer who abandoned a courtroom career to campaign for an international crime of ecocide

Other lives: Leading British writer for stage, screen and television

Journalist who was deputy editor of the Sunday Times during the 1983 saga of the Hitler Diaries, which turned out to be fake