14 h. ago Heartbreaking moment man, 58, finally finds birth mother who abandoned him as a baby

Simon Prothero, 58, was discovered as a newborn baby outside a toilet block of a children's home in Neath, Wales. ITV's Long Lost Family: Born Without a Trace team helped him find his birth family.

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58 h. ago Woman abandoned in pram as a baby with a heartbreaking note from her impoverished mother finally meets her real siblings after 55 years

ITV'S Long Lost Family: Born Without a Trace follows Lisa Dyke, 55, who now lives in France, on her journey to discover information about her past.

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2 w. ago Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review – the mercurial Muriel Spark

A canny biography of the early career of this strange, brilliant novelistMuriel Spark, born Muriel Sarah Camberg, was nothing if not protean. Her gravestone declares her a poet; posterity knows her as the author of 22 short, indelibly strange and subversive novels. In life, she was by turns an editor, critic, biographer, playwright, Jewish Gentile, Catholic convert, divorcee, abandoning mother, spy. As Frances Wilson observes in this canny biography, she looks in every photograph as if she is played by a different actor, so drastic are the changes in her face and style. From precocious Edinburgh schoolgirl to unhappy Rhodesian wife, spirited London bohemian to poised Roman socialite, Spark made an art of unsettling transformations. She was the queen of narrative control, not least the narrative of her own life.She was also the enemy of biographers, a pursuer of lawsuits who managed to delay the publication of her own authorised biography by seven years (“a hatchet job; full of insul...

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3 w. ago Orphaned bear cub finds comfort in a teddy bear and costumed caregivers

An orphaned black bear cub in California is being cared for by biologists in fur coats and bear masks

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3 w. ago Cub found alone in US woods now being raised by wildlife staff in bear costumes

Two-month-old black bear, who was starving in a California forest, is youngest cub the San Diego center has cared forHuman bears, some would say, are taking care of a two-month-old cub that spent days without his mother, starving in a California forest.The small black bear cub was rescued by campers in Los Padres national forest after being found alone and starving. The infant bear is now recovering at San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center, and is believed to be the youngest cub the organization has ever cared for. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago America's cutest bear cub is thriving in shelter after being abandoned by his mother

The two-month-old male black bear cub arrived at the shelter 'weak, underweight and alone' after being orphaned in the forest.

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