THE deaths of two of the North West's most influential figures in science and innovation have been announced.

Sir Bernard Lovell, Emeritus Professor of Radioastronomy at the University of Manchester and the founder and first director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, died on Monday aged 98.

Epistem, the stem cell research company, announced the death of its founder, Professor Christopher Potten, at the age of 71.

Sir Bernard was born in 1913 in Gloucestershire and studied at the University of Brist......for the full story register now for free or login below...