Adrian Lobb

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Life Dorothea Barron, 100, is one of the few surviving Wrens who served during World War II. To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Big Issue went to meet her Dorothea Barron is 100 years old. She turned 16 in October 1940, during World War II, while she was still attending school in Twickenham. After leaving school, she immediately joined the Wrens – the Women’s Royal Naval Service – to serve as a visual signaller, despite officially being too short to sign up.

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TV The Man like Mobeen main man loved The Goonies and Oasis. Now he’s representing working class West Midlanders and is loved by Pedro Pascal and Chris Morris When Guz Khan created Man Like Mobeen, it broke the mould for BBC3 comedy. The former humanities teacher, whose journey into television began with short YouTube videos, was representing authentic working class West Midlands life. And it was funny. The first series aired, to great acclaim, in late 2017.

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TV The latest to answer our Big Questions series is the Doctor himself Fresh from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which recently ended its run at the National Theatre, Ncuti Gatwa is back on our screens as the Time Lord in Doctor Who. But he’s kindly taken some time out from his Tardis to answer our Big Questions. What TV show had a big impact on you growing up? The first time I saw Top Boy I was in drama school. I was still a teenager, still growing up.

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TV The star of Beyond Paradise was influenced by Withnail and I but now tries to live a healthy life for his kids. And he has a big idea to save the world… Actor Kris Marshall has been a star of stage and screen for 25 years. If roles in hit sitcom My Family and Richard Curtis‘s box office smash Love Actually established him in the public consciousness, it was his lead role as DI Humphrey Goodman in Death in Paradise – and now Beyond Paradise – that won a special place in audience’s hearts.

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Life The British distance-running champ broke many records, but for this year’s London Marathon there’s a different goal Paula Radcliffe was born in Davenham, Cheshire, in 1973. She is a former world champion in the marathon, half-marathon and cross country and has also been European champion in 10,000 and metres and in cross country. She has won the London Marathon and New York Marathon three times each and held the Women’s Marathon world record for 16 years, from 2003 to 2019.