‘all it takes is one person for you to realise anything is possible’

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

I’ve been selling Big Issue for a couple of years. It was when money was fading out and I heard Big Issue gave you a card reader. Begging was becoming impossible but because they had a card reader tha

At 16, I was just obsessed with engines and motorbikes. That’s all. I used to have an AR50 Kawasaki moped when I was 16. It’s knackered, but I’ve still got it and I’m going to do it up. My whole life

Love Big Issue and Lou, I think, who sold me the mag at St Paul’s station is a nice guy. Here’s a picture (above) that I took last week from my narrow boat on the River Lea where I have recently moved

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.”

I’ve been doing Big Issue for a while and when I first moved to Ilkeston I wanted to get somebody to make a lot more people aware of how hard it was to sell the magazine and what we do to get the mone