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Michael Forbes: Hero of Balmedie – The Sunday Times

Posted on December 2, 2007September 8, 2016 by edrichards

Donald Trump wants to build a billion-dollar resort on a rural Scottish shore. But he’ll have to do battle with this man first — who says he won’t budge for love or money After thousands of years of continuous human settlement, something interesting has happened in Balmedie. The locals don’t know where to look. Camera[…]

Posted in The Sunday Times

Ricky Hatton – The Sunday Times

Posted on November 18, 2007September 8, 2016 by edrichards

He’s just 5ft 7in and a Manchester ‘scallywag’ who loves curry and chips. But Ricky Hatton is also Britain’s most exciting boxer, and is facing the fight of his career. Can he become a fully fledged national hero? They came, in late September, to Manchester’s Albert Square – 3,000 of them, mostly young men in[…]

Posted in The Sunday Times

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: The Visit – The Independent

Posted on September 15, 2006September 8, 2016 by edrichards

Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the oligarch who dared to defy Russia’s president – and paid the price. Convicted of tax evasion and fraud, stripped of his billions, and exiled to Siberia’s most brutal and notorious prison, he faces a daily struggle for survival in one of the most remote places on earth. Ed Caesar joined his[…]

Posted in The Independent

Jon Bon Jovi – The Independent

Posted on May 31, 2006September 8, 2016 by edrichards

To his critics, he’s just an over-coiffed mediocrity. To his fans, he’s a living rock god. To himself, he’s just a kid from New Jersey who got very, very lucky. But one thing’s for certain: Jon Bon Jovi’s latest world tour is the quintessential rock’n’roll experience. Ed Caesar joins the man and his band on[…]

Posted in The Independent

Jayson Blair: The Man Who Fooled America – The Independent

Posted on May 4, 2006September 8, 2016 by edrichards

It was a byword for journalistic integrity, a beacon of truth and one of America’s proudest institutions. Then, in 2003, The New York Times was brought to its knees. A 27-year-old reporter, one of the newsroom’s brightest stars, was exposed as a plagiarist who fabricated stories and concocted quotes. The fall-out was epic: the editor[…]

Posted in The Independent

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