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  • 2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Peter Stanford

    Born in 1974 and raised on the Isle of Wight, Edward ‘Bear’ Grylls OBE was educated at Eton and Birkbeck College. He was the UK’s youngest Chief Scout and served as a Trooper in the British Special Forces, but at 23 broke his back in a parachute jump. A year later, he was the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Everest. He became a household name after his adventure reality series Born Survivor aired in 2006 – it ran for seven seasons, winning two Primetime Emmy awards.

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Peter Stanford

    The world's richest architect on rows with the King, opposing Angela Rayner and still working at 90Reaching 90 can put those lucky enough to do so into a mellow mood, keen on looking back over their long lives. But not Norman Foster, or Lord Foster of Thames Bank as he has been since 1999, the world's best-known architect and a global "starchitect" for the past half century, who reached the landmark last Sunday. "I haven't really had time to think about it.

  • 1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Peter Stanford

    In FocusThe Catholic Church looks set to canonise the late Carlo Acutis, a tech-savvy youngster who died in 2006, and with it, usher in a new era of religion at a time when worship is on the decline, writes Peter StanfordSaint-making in the Catholic Church – or canonisation as it is called – is traditionally a drawn-out, opaque process with the successful candidates who have emerged from it in recent times usually worthy but unsurprising long-dead clerics and nuns.

  • 1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Peter Stanford

    Each to their ownI HAD walked down the wooden jetty to look at a pod of dolphins which my nature-loving daughter had spotted in the harbour. She is on a mission to cure me of the lingering effects of a nature-phobic childhood. If I so much as stroked Topsy, my Auntie Rita’s lovable mongrel, my mum would take me to the bathroom to wash my hands. “All animals are dirty,” she instilled in me; “so stay away from them.”I am pleased to report that I am in recovery.

  • 1 month ago | msn.com | Peter Stanford

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

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