Credit: Mike Baker
The Fourteenth is Britain’s forgotten army – its epic WWII campaigns in Burma long overshadowed by events in Europe. Its three African Divisions – which did so much to win back Burma from the Japanese – are the forgotten army’s forgotten formations. This is their story.
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I’m telling this story reluctantly because I’ve endured two decades of ridicule from the people I’m closest to. But it’s true: when I was 15, I saw a big cat darting around a disused railway line in Cheltenham in the wee small hours. Here’s what happened.
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It’s not the ideal discovery to make when your boss sends you home from work for being too hungover after not winning the work ten-pin bowling tournament. My god, that was a long sentence. Anyway, here’s the story of how I became a father to felines.
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What is cosmic traveller Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s preferred departure point? The disappointingly terrestrial London City Airport. And one time the legendary Jamaican producer was there, I was there too. So obviously I had to go over and ask him to make me a dubplate.
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It’s fair to say that Enis’s had a bit of a reputation. It was a local cafe for local people, and no one else was welcome. I just really wish someone had told me this before I ventured in, because the only way I could get out was by calling the police.
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