A spell in a crumbling country house with snow on the billiard table and swallows in the four-poster beds gave Annie Tempest the inspiration for her Tottering cartoon. More than three decades after the first strip, she reveals to Ben Lerwill how she pulls it off every week

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MARIE peered out of the front room window, wondering if people would be on time. And not only that – what if nobody showed? She let the net curtain drop, listening to the kettle whistling in the kitch

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

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TOM! What are you doing here?” I stopped gazing at the empty space in the centre of the table, to throw myself into my fiancé’s arms. “You’re not supposed to be here until tonight,” I told him. “I dec