Adrian Lobb

6 days ago | bigissue.com | Adrian Lobb

Feeling the heat? Help our vendors keep cool. Buy a summer support kit for £35 Culture The English cricket icon struggled with shyness at school, but his sporting obsession put him on the front foot in life James ‘Jimmy’ Anderson was born in Burnley in July 1982. He made his first-class cricket debut for Lancashire at the age of 19, his one day international debut at 20 and went on to become England’s most successful cricket bowler of all time.

1 week ago | bigissue.com | Adrian Lobb

Film In celebration of new film Lollipop, we look back on the times hard-hitting British films cast undiscovered actors and propelled them to stardom At the heart of the new film Lollipop is a central performance from Posy Sterling as Molly. Her depiction of the pain and frustration of navigating the fractured system as she fights to be reunited with her children following a short spell in prison is as powerful and poignant as any seen on the big screen in recent years.

2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Adrian Lobb

Music How the sound of the terraces reflects the times You don’t need to be a football fan to find the sound of a crowd singing together profoundly moving. And you don’t need to be a Liverpool FC fan to find the Kop end singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” a breathtaking spectacle. When the club clinched the Premier League title in late April, the crowd, players and management united to sing a jubilant rendition of football’s most famous terrace anthem.

2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Adrian Lobb

TV Football offered her an escape from a tough childhood, but she never dreamed she’d become so integral to the development of the women’s game Alex Scott was born in 1984 in Poplar, London. She signed to Arsenal aged eight and broke into the first team in 2002, when she was just 18. Aside from short spells at Birmingham and Boston Breakers, she remained at Arsenal until retiring in 2017.

2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Adrian Lobb

TV The star of the BBC on the complex relationship between cops and robbers The Gold is back. The BBC hit the jackpot with Neil Forsyth’s drama about the Brinks-Mat robbery and the fallout from one of the most infamous crimes of the last century. Here was a sharply written and acted crime caper about a group of South London criminals who bungled their way to the biggest gold heist in history. But it was also about the small band of police officers determined to bring them to justice.