I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i

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It came as a pleasant surprise to Linda Johnson, a cat lover of 40 years, when greyhounds entered her world. Introduced to her by her niece and a work colleague who both had a rescue greyhound, she im

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