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A TALENTED puppet maker from Tiptree is the subject of a brand new book amid her famous BBC character’s 71st anniversary.

A TALENTED puppet maker from Tiptree is the subject of a brand new book amid her famous BBC character’s 71st anniversary.

50 Totally Random Facts About the U.S. By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News On 2/13/21 at 11:00 AM EST Stewart Watson/Getty The United States is a geographically vast, consumer-driven country with a mixed economy that allows for highly diverse industries, manufacturing, skill sets, tourism, cuisine, and commerce—and a wide-reaching culture, to boot. This country holds many things, from trees and national parks to suburban sprawl and crime. This is the land of plenty (128.45 million households...

Last modified on Fri 12 Mar 2021 12.06 EST Basil Moss, who has died aged 85, was a perennial character actor often popping up in popular series as authority figures, but he found his best parts in two BBC soaps. He became a familiar face on television as the librarian Alan Drew in Compact, set in the offices of a glossy women’s magazine. The role made him a heart-throb as his character went through various melodramas in and out of the reference library, including a string of relationships, fr...