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• My dad was a homeless alcoholic – but he got a second chance at life

  After sitting his GCSEs, Duncan Gall went to Tenerife with his friends from school. He remembers the bittersweet feeling of arriving home, missing the beach and sun, but glad to be back. He and his father, John, lived in a flat in Peterborough. His mother, Maureen, had died four years before. Duncan had started to rummage for his keys when he spotted the notice. "It said we'd been ...

• Canned foods create culinary magic with quinoa pilaf

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