Acclaimed hairdresser Vidal Sassoon has died at home surrounded by loved ones after losing a battle with leukaemia, his family said.

FOR his latest novel, In Zodiac Light, Robert Edric frames the post-war life of Britain’s lesser known war poet and composer Ivor Gurney.

IN his letter (October 20), Pierse Martin implies this was a country untouched by war until perfidious nationalism kindled violent sectarian conflict in 1916.

PAT MULDOWNEY (Irish Examiner, March 8) raises troubling questions in relation to the Somme but also to Easter 1916.

Actress and model Catya Sassoon, the daughter of British hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, died in her sleep after attending a New Year’s party at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. She was 33.