The TelegraphHarold Wilson Barrie Penrose, reporter who probed Harold Wilson’s worries and named the ‘Fifth Man’ – obituary The Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesBarrie Penrose, who has died aged 78, was a dogged investigative journalist who outed John Cairncross as the “Fifth Man” in the Cambridge Spy Ring, and helped to put Jeremy Thorpe on trial. Penrose found
The TelegraphPopular Fiction Per Olov Enquist, Swedish author of The Visit of the Royal Physician and other novels – obituary The Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesPer Olov Enquist, who has died aged 85, was a major figure in the Nordic literary world, and was perhaps best-known beyond it for his historical novel The Visit of the Royal Physician (1999). Enquist his
The TelegraphBulgaria Stephen Daneff, Bulgarian-born journalist who flourished in 1960s Fleet Street – obituary The Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesStephen Daneff, who has died aged 88, was a dapper, witty, polyglot journalist and author, exiled since boyhood from his native Bulgaria (where two of his ancestors were prime minister), who settled in
The TelegraphKidnapping Tiede Herrema, Dutch businessman who was kidnapped by terrorists in Ireland in 1975 – obituary The Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesDr Tiede Herrema, who has died aged 99, was a Dutch industrialist in the Irish Republic who in 1975 survived 36 days in captivity after being kidnapped by a rogue faction of the Provisional IRA. He coped
The TelegraphSeremban Colonel Mike Hall, bomb disposal expert who was decorated for his services in Malaysia – obituary The Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesColonel Mike Hall, who has died aged 81, was awarded a George Medal for disarming a particularly dangerous bomb while serving in Malaya during the Confrontation with Indonesia. Hall, then a captain in
