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Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

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When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

It was two very serious illnesses which struck her only a year apart that made Debbie Palmer decide to have more fun in her life. Thinking back to her childhood digging around in her granny’s garden t

Screenwriter Daisy Goodwin spent her youth desperately trying to live up to a glamorous vision of her absent mother. Here’s what she learned