‘She just wasn’t very good’

It is a little-known fact that Paula Vennells suffers from claustrophobia. When I interviewed her for this paper’s Business section a decade ago, she told me it first came on during a trip with the Girl Guides to Speedwell Cavern, a flooded 18th-century lead mine in the Peak District. “Ugh,” …

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Saving a 50-year-old M6 road sign from the skip

National Highways The sign was in place on the M6 for nearly half a century When a tired old road sign disappeared from the spot where it had sat for almost 50 years on the M6, it sparked a social media buzz. The information sign for Keele Services in Staffordshire …

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