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The adventurer on his family’s escape vessel, his crush on the Princess of Wales, and a disgusting toenail habitBorn in Northern Ireland, Bear Grylls, 51, served as a soldier in the 21 SAS regiment and went on to star in adventure series, including seven seasons of...
Ryan Wedding’s journey from Olympic snowboarder to alleged cocaine kingpin
The native of Thunder Bay, Canada, has been compared to Pablo Escobar and El Chapo – but is he really as big a figure as US prosecutors have claimed?To compete at the highest levels of snowboarding, racers must master carving, edging and balance at speeds stretching...
‘To say I was the favourite would imply I was liked’: Mark Haddon on a loveless childhood
As a bookish child with a distant father and a disapproving mother, the Curious Incident author retreated into a world of his own. Looking back, he asks what it means to lose parents who never showed you loveWhen I see washed-out photographs of English life in the 60s...
Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say
Health secretary will describe plan to offer tax relief on private healthcare as ‘tax cut for the wealthiest’Reform UK’s policy of tax relief on private health insurance could cost the country £1.7bn, the health secretary, Wes Streeting, is expected to say on...