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Helen Leavey
Helen Leavey
Helen Leavey has been a journalist for more than two decades and worked for the BBC in Taiwan and London. She also lived in Beijing for many years, where she endeavoured to learn Mandarin, brought up her children and worked in human rights. Originally from the south of England, Helen now lives in the northern county of Yorkshire where she's written books, made short films and created the podcast Voices from Herriot Country. Available on iTunes and SoundCloud.

Tanya Marwaha, 20, created ‘Championing Youth Minds’ after realising young people from British-Indian families found it hard to seek help for their struggles.

British wildlife artist Robert E. Fuller has turned his enthusiasm for live-streaming the creatures in his Yorkshire garden – owls, stoats, badgers – into a YouTube sensation. Last month, China got its first glimpse of his videos and the response has been ‘bonkers’.

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Mary Taylor Previte was 12 years old when, on August 17, 1945, seven brave men parachuted in to free her and the 1,500 or so other Western prisoners being held at the Weihsien Internment Camp, in Shandong province.

Olympic runner immortalised in Chariots of Fire would have been best man at my wedding if he’d lived, says Joe Cotterill, who met the two loves of his life in the Japanese wartime Weihsien internment camp in Shandong province

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