British PM Boris Johnson’s mum Charlotte Johnson Wahl dies aged 79

Charlotte Johnson Wahl, a painter, passed away at St Mary's Hospital Paddington, on Monday. 

The daughter of the barrister Sir James Fawcett, who was president of the European Commission for Human Rights in the 1970s, she studied English at Oxford University.

The artist Barbara Hepworth, who was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition in London in 2015, has died at the age of 90.

In 2008, she said: "I try to paint every day if I possibly can, though I have to go to the hospital a lot".