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‘My husband and son died on the Titanic submarine. When I think of them now, they’re asleep in the ocean’: Christine Dawood relives the agony of losing half her family as world held its breath – and her despair over tragedy that should NEVER have happened

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Christine Dawood still can’t quite believe that her husband of 20 years, Shahzada, and their precious son, Suleman, are no longer with her. It is now seven months since she last saw them climbing into the Titan submersible for, what she calls, ‘the big one’ in terms of this remarkable family’s many adventures.

Last June, one hour and 45 minutes into the dive in the North Atlantic to view the wreck of the Titanic, off the coast of Newfoundland, the

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With a mixture of brutal honesty and his trademark humour, ADRIAN EDMONDSON relives the sadistic school beatings that still haunt him

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In yesterday’s Mail, one of Britain’s most prized comic actors revealed his love and frustration with Rik Mayall. Now, with equal candour, in the second instalment of his blistering autobiography, he asks whether his violent childhood inspired his and Rik’s brand of anarchic humour. 

In 1969, when I’m aged 12, my dad leaves our home in Bradford to work in Uganda. He’s got a job out there. We’re to join him in six months. I don’t know what I say

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