Obituaries

Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic, has died at the age of 97. She was just nine weeks old when the ship went down in 1912.

An interview with Dean is at the link.

Miss Dean, who remembered nothing of the fateful journey, died on Sunday at the care home in Hampshire where she lived, two of her friends told the BBC.

Her family had been travelling in third class to America, where they hoped to start a new life and open a tobacconist's shop in Kansas City.

Miss Dean's mother, Georgetta, and two-year-old brother, Bert, also survived, but her father, Bertram, was among those who perished when the vessel sank.