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What would have happened if a young Paul McCartney had stayed in his job as a factory coil-winder back in 1961? He almost did:
I started working at a coil-winding factory called Massey and Coggins. My dad had told me to go out and get a job. I’d said, ‘I’ve got a job, I’m in a band.’ [...]

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Back in 2005, Alex Tew was a 21 year old student from Cricklade in Wiltshire and was about to begin a three-year Business Management course at the University of Nottingham. Alex was concerned that he would be left with a student loan that would take years to repay so he brainstormed ways to make some [...]

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Life is supposed to slow down when your life is in threat. And yet it didn’t when I found myself on a motorbike in a Tennessee forest, pulling a wheelie, heading for a tree. One moment I was riding along a forest path, the next I was on the floor with a bike by my [...]

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