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Obituaries

William Salice's Kinder Surprise egg was launched in 1974.

William Salice: man behind Kinder Surprise chocolate egg

William Salice, who has died aged 83, played a leading role at the confectionery giant Ferrero for four decades, helping to launch the Kinder Surprise chocolate egg in 1974; in the decades since, more than 30 billion of the treats have been sold around the world.

The man who gave the Beatles away

Allan Williams helped the Beatles get early gigs.

Allan Williams complained of night-time torments when "my teeth make a gritty noise in my skull as I think of how I let the band and a million quid slip through my fingers".

Hospitality in country-house style

John Guy, restaurateur, businessman.

There are some of us who remember when Victoria was a roast beef and two veg kind of a place. Then along came the Italians and the Greeks. And then there was John Guy.