Obituaries

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  Engineering stalwart and business founder dies aged 84

  David McMurtry, co-founder of Renishaw has some 200 patents to his name

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  Tributes paid to city’s famous restaurateur

  Matthew Pruen opened a bar on Whiteladies Road in 1989

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  Cotham-educated Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs dies aged 94

  The Higgs boson is named in honour of the eminent physicist

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  Bristol RAF pilot who served in Second World War dies aged 102

  The squadron leader's time in the RAF involved flying heavy bomber planes

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  Tributes paid to community champion Mike Primarolo

  A tireless champion of city farms and other forms of direct community action in Bristol and beyond

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  Tributes paid to last surviving Dambuster ‘Johnny’ Johnson

  The former bomb-aimer lived in north Bristol until his death aged 101

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  Tributes paid to tireless campaigner Julie Boston

  Julie, who has died at 88, has been praised for her "indomitable enthusiasm"

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  Bristol arts champion and collector Ken Stradling dies 

  A man who made a lifelong passion for design into a stellar career

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