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18-year-old soldier Craig Wood was on patrol in ...

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Readers of Fortean Times will know that I have written regularly about real-life experiences of road ghosts, phantom hitchhikers and other apparitions. However, I also come across people who have had

The normal diet of gladiators was vegetarian, but not through choice or principle. The rations in their barracks consisted of sagina, which literally translates as ‘stuffing’. It was a barley and bean

Thornaby Kingfisher goes vegetarian The popular kingfisher motif adopted by Thornaby Depot in the mid-1980s has reappeared, but there’s a twist. It’s given up fish and is now vegetarian. After its rep