HE WAS on the run from Saddam Hussein’s police in 1981,
and instead of fleeing into exile,
he decided to stay at home and hide.
Inside a false wall he built between two rooms.
For as long as it would take.
It took 22 years...

There was nobody else on the marshes apart from a couple of old ladies,
and even the normally plentiful cows and sheep had huddled
at the far end of the marsh as if they had been frightened...

A baby weighing just 12 ounces at birth has defied doctor's predictions to survive - and is believed to be the smallest to do so in the UK.