Pam Moorhouse, who has died aged 77, was a retired factory worker from Grimsby who spearheaded a campaign to restore the 92 traditional counties of the United Kingdom, whose role had, in her view, been eroded by government diktat.
Professor Philip James, who has died aged 85, was a pioneer of research into nutrition and in particular obesity, an issue on which he rang increasingly desperate alarm bells while the problem, as he put it, became a tidal wave.