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I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

Actor Jill Halfpenny on losing loved ones, leaving London and moving to the seaside, and starting a podcast

Louisiana soul man ROBERT FINLEY overcame his hardscrabble origins, loss and blindness to finally find success in his later life. Amazingly, he believes he still has much to prove. “Most people retire at 65,” he tells Kevin EG Perry. “Hell, I came alive at 65.”

The 1911 census, unlike previous censuses, asked the public: “If any person included in this Schedule is ‘Totally Deaf’ or ‘Deaf and Dumb’”. Previous censuses had grouped health information together a

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