Good neighbour

A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases. Marian Brunskill, who died last year aged 95, lived next door to the parents of Tricia Cohen in Lancashire. Her bequest will fund a new laboratory for the MRC unit, whose director is Dr Cohen's husband, Philip Cohen.