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Mr Hickie said his passion for photography started when he was 14.

“I’m not too sure what actually sparked the interest,” he said.

“I’ve always been creative and I’ve always loved the outdoors, so I think when I picked up the camera, it just kind…

When she first moved back to the UK with her husband and young child, she was concerned about getting the levels of work she had in Dubai.

But another performer had recommended her to an agent in the UK and she was quickly offered a job and was…

Meesha Jones thought she’d serve her last drink on New Year’s Eve.

“I’ve had, you know, multiple small breakdowns over the past,” Jones said.

Oasis nightclub, where she’s worked the past 10 years, announced plans to close six months ago.

New…

Record producer and jazz musician Joe Trudgeon came up with the idea after he found a copy in a charity shop, and recognised the names of several musicians he plays alongside.

“A lot of the musicians who were on the original one are sadly no…

In the reception class at Smethwick’s Victoria Park Academy, Aria, four, loves books that make her giggle.

Her favourite is The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, because of the fox sleeping in a sock and the giraffe’s…

A plan for 99 homes on land near Bicester can go ahead after a planning inspector overturned a council’s rejection of it.

Richborough Estates took the project for the site west of Fringford Road in Caversfield to an appeal after Cherwell District…

Bill Peascod was also an active climbing figure in the late 1930s and 1940s.

“Born in Maryport, Bill Peascod came from a mining background in West Cumbria,” David Monteith, from Mountain Heritage Trust, said.

He made a first ascent of Eagle Front…

My thyroid cancer arrived by accident, in the way life-changing things sometimes do. In May of this year, I went for an upright MRI for a minor injury on my arm, and the scan happened to catch the mass in my neck. By the following month, I had…

The beginning of the books calendar is usually dominated by debuts, but January 2026 sees releases from some of the year’s biggest authors. Known for his surreally bittersweet short stories, George Saunders has written only one novel so far…