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Colin Freeman

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  • Journalist and Foreign Correspondent, Freelance
London, United Kingdom
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Journalist and author, one-time hostage of Somali pirates. Latest book: The Mad and the Brave: the Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion
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What prison life is like for Daniel Kinahan

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By Colin Freeman Verified
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In the 30 years that David McDonald spent as a prison guard in Ireland's toughest jails, one of his less troublesome inmates was a crook nicknamed the “Dapper Don”. While other prisoners lounged around in tracksuit bottoms, the Don wore sports jackets and trousers, his behaviour as impeccable as his dress sense. He never got into rows or brawls, and he spent the majority of his time in his cell studying languages. “I never felt threatened by him at all,” recalls McDonald.
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The British cowboy using tough love to help despondent teenagers

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By Colin Freeman Verified
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In the wooded valleys of Royal Deeside, an hour's gallop from Balmoral, a lone figure on horseback can often be seen, roaming like a stray extra from a cowboy film. In his Stetson hat, denim shirt and leather chaps, Jock Hutchison could be mistaken for the Marlboro Man on holiday, perhaps, or an off-duty Texan oil worker from nearby Aberdeen. In fact, the 63-year-old was born and raised here in Scotland – although his back story still features horses, guns and struggles against the odds.
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The unabashed socialist filling Andy Burnham's mayoral shoes

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By Colin Freeman Verified
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There are only two really famous people from Burnage in Manchester, neither of them politicians. The suburb is the birthplace of Oasis's Gallagher brothers, who put Manchester on the map in the mid-1990s, back when Andy Burnham was just another face in the crowd at the Hacienda. Thirty years on, however, another Burnage resident is in the spotlight. Step forward, Bev Craig, the local Labour councillor who has replaced Burnham as Manchester's mayor after his departure to Downing Street.
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