Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? The author, Luke Jackson, writes briefly about his younger autistic & AD/HD brothers, providing insights into the antics of his younger years & advice for parents, carers & teachers of young Asperger Syndrome children. ...

Simon Moss is just an ordinary boy who loves action comics & wishes he were brave enough to star in one.

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Could Whippet be developing his own comic superpower?

The boys are heading off to the woods for an Explorers Camp weekend.

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Five people. Five chances. One woman’s search for happiness.

Allegra Bird’s arms are scattered with freckles, a

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Fred & Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband & wife who loved & killed together. During their long relationship, the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their daughter. What was left of Fred West's eight-year-old stepdaughter was dug up from under the Wests' previous Gloucester home; his first wife & nanny were buried in open country. Most victims had been decapitated & dismembered, their remains showing signs of sexual torture. These twelve are just the ones police found when the Wests were arrested in 1994. There may be more whose bones have not been located... Howard Sounes broke the first major story about the Wests as a journalist, & covered the murder trial of Rosemary West, before writing Fred & Rose, the definitive account of this infamous case. Beginning with Fred's & Rose's bizarre childhoods, Sounes charts their lives... ...

Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel & Stone
- The Machines that changed the World: The Industrial Revolution was a time when Britain
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Have you ever looked at one of our great historical buildings & wondered how on earth it was built? Well, now you can get the answer from a man who devoted his life to finding out
- Fred Dibnah. Fred takes us to some of our country's most famous castles, cathedrals, abbeys, great houses & bridges, & gives precise explanations of how they were constructed at a time when technology was limited & there were no powered tools, no concrete, steel, engines or heavy machinery. Illustrated with Fred's own beautifully executed drawings, published here for the first time, we explore engineering marvels such as St Paul's Cathedral, the Humber Bridge & Blackpool Tower. Fred's passion for the traditional skills of builders, carpenters & stonemasons shines through on every page.
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Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering'
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Fred tours Britain searching out magnificent monuments, from ancient earthworks through to modern day structures. He looks at how & why things were built & what sort of tools & materials were used & how buildings were adapted & altered to meet changing needs. We get to see some of Fred's favourite castles, cathedrals, palaces, tunnels & bridges & discover the skills that were required to design, build & decorate these buildings. From Hadrian's Wall to St Paul's Cathedral & the Thames Barrier to the ' Pepsi Max Big One' Rollercoaster, Fred reveals just what makes a monument into one of Britain's best. FORTS & CASTLES Fred visits Old Sarum, Hadrian's Wall & the strategically placed castles at Dover, Edinburgh & Warwick. HOUSES & PALACES Fred starts his tour at his old house in Bolton with its unusual chimney before moving on to lghtham Mote, Hampton Court, Lacock Abbey, Cragside & Beamish. PLACES OF WORSHIP All his working life Fred has been involved with church towers & steeples & he thoroughly enjoys himself at St Walburge in Preston, Avebury, Escomb Saxon church, York Minster, Chester & St. Paul's Cathedral. PLACES OF WORK Fred takes the opportunity to look at our places of work including Merchant Adventurer's Hall, Lacock Village, Armley Mills & the ultra modern Lloyd's Building in London. BRIDGES & TUNNELS Fred takes a tour of some of the most wonderful bridges & tunnels in the country including The Pontcysylite Aqueduct, Conwy Suspension Bridge, structures designed by Brunel, The Forth Bridge, Humber Bridge, Thames Barrier & Channel Tunnel. PLEASURE PALACES Fred spends time looking at familiar places of entertainment in Bath, London, Edinburgh & Blackpool, & takes the opportunity to have a ride on the Pepsi Max Big One. ...

WIND, WATER & STEAM: Fred takes a nostalgic tour of the country giving his own inimitable view on the Industrial Revolution. MILLS & FACTORIES: The series continues as Fred Dibnah traces the development of Britains textile industry from the picturesque Scottish countryside of New Lanark to the urban mill town of Burnley. IRON & STEEL: Fred takes a look at the development of the iron & steel industries at Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. MINING: Freds tour takes him from Cornwall to Scotl&, exploring how tin, slate, lead & coal were all extracted from the ground. RAILWAYS: In this programme he traces the development of the railways from the first steam locomotive to the world record breaking Mallard. SHIP & ENGINEERING: Fred looks at the great age of shipbuilding & examines the skills of engineers. ...