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Byline: Emily Derbyshire My grandfather Edward Derbyshire, who has died aged 91, was an influential geoscientist. His research encompassed everything from landslides and glaciers to desertification and climate change. For [...]

Byline: Philip Morgan My friend and former work colleague Christopher Wakeling, who has died aged 74, was a specialist in the architecture of Protestant nonconformity. He spent his academic career [...]

Byline: Donna Ferguson My mother, Pnina Werbner, who has died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism aged 78, was an emerita professor of social anthropology at Keele University. She was renowned [...]

Monday 18 July sees both the next vote for the Conservative leadership contest and the first ever national emergency red alert for heat ( England braces for 40C temperatures as [...]

Byline: Joe Andrew My friend and colleague Valentina Polukhina, who has died aged 85, was the leading authority on the life and work of the Nobel Laureate poet Joseph Brodsky. [...]

Byline: Rachel Hall A UK PE teacher who has pioneered new ways of teaching sports to visually impaired children at a special needs school in Liverpool has been shortlisted for [...]

Byline: Rachael Pells As far as work experience goes, Pryanka Shergill's CV punches above the rest: a second-year law student, she recently trained as a legal companion and already has [...]

Byline: Jessica Murray Zero-carbon hydrogen has been injected into a UK gas network for the first time in a groundbreaking trial that could help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The [...]

Byline: Patrick Greenfield A British professor who has claimed that aluminium in vaccines is linked to autism has raised more than £22,000 to support his work through a Keele University [...]

Byline: Jessica Elgot A schoolboy doing work experience with an astrophysics professor has discovered a new planet 1,000 light years from Earth. Newcastle-under-Lyme school pupil Tom Wagg was 15 when [...]

Byline: Caroline Davies Wealthy, educated men who are single in middle age drink more in later life than others of the same age or older, according to research. A 10-year [...]

Byline: Stuart Jeffries 'I got on the bus just after I'd been on Midlands Today,' says Neil Baldwin, 'and this woman says, 'That's where I've seen you before. TV last [...]

Tony Waters writes: Martin Dent (Other lives, 28 July) taught at Keele University while I was a student there from 1967 until 1972. One or two of his eccentricities, still [...]

Byline: Andrew Dobson My friend and colleague Martin Dent, who has died aged 89, was one of the founders of the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign, which is now considered [...]

Byline: Stian Alexander My father, David Alexander, who has died aged 72, was a man who took his work seriously. As a colonial officer in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in [...]

Byline: Rosanna Greenstreet Novelist. Studied at Keele University, University of York and King's College, London 'My parents were quite poor, and having that debt would have been a worry. After [...]