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<strong>Other lives:</strong> Teacher and author who pioneered butterfly monitoring in an urban setting

Last modified on Fri 12 Mar 2021 12.06 EST Basil Moss, who has died aged 85, was a perennial character actor often popping up in popular series as authority figures, but he found his best parts in two BBC soaps. He became a familiar face on television as the librarian Alan Drew in Compact, set in the offices of a glossy women’s magazine. The role made him a heart-throb as his character went through various melodramas in and out of the reference library, including a string of relationships, fr...