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Actor Miriam Margolyes shares her lifelong love of creatures great and small

And so it was that the fair Lady Joanna spurned her betrothed and fled from the castle in the dead of night, her faithful man-at-arms by her side. Off the lovers ran, into the depths of Howe Acre wood

When I was 16, I was into music and athletics. I was a sprinter and I was in school bands. George Michael was my musical hero – I would stand in front of the mirror with a hairbrush singing Faith. Sch

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Luther Ford is sitting in the cafe at the BFI on the South Bank in London when Big Issue arrives. He’s casually dressed in baggy T-shirt and shorts, baseball cap, trainers. But he has a bag full of cl

At 16, I was doing my first year of A levels at a minor public school in Oxfordshire. I’d done pretty well in my GCSEs – I got one ‘B’, which disappointed me, but it was biology and I don’t feel it’s