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13 Mar 2015

Behind the scenes with West End star and mum Kerry Ellis

Award-winning actress and singer Kerry Ellis is best known as the star of West End and Broadway musicals 'Les Miserables' and 'Wicked'. She’s also mot...

Kerry Ellis

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Award-winning actress and singer Kerry Ellis with her son Alfie. Photo: Kerry Ellis
12 Mar 2015

Isy Suttie: being a mum

We’ve loved Isy Suttie ever since she captured our hearts as Dobby in the dark TV sitcom 'Peep Show'. Since then she’s made us laugh and won awards as...

Isy Suttie

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Isy Suttie, award-winning comedy writer and stand-up comedian, shares her secrets of being a mum with us. Photo: Isy Suttie
11 Mar 2015

Gabby Logan on being a good mum

As well as being one of the UK's leading broadcasters and an award-winning TV presenter, Gabby Logan is a devoted mother of two. Gabby has talked in ...

Gabby Logan

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English presenter and sports journalist Gabby Logan with her two children. Photo: Gaby Logan
30 Jan 2015

Meet the kids scavenging on rubbish dumps to survive

15 million people in the developing world today survive by salvaging waste. Many of them are children. We lift the lid on the worldwide scandal of you...

Margaret, 10 years old. Mwakirunge Dumpsite, Mombasa. Photo: Kate Holt/ActionAid
11 Dec 2014

Hugh Dennis visits Myanmar to meet the girl he sponsors

As a long-term supporter of ActionAid, British actor and comedian Hugh Dennis recently visited the five-year-old girl he sponsors in Myanmar. Having b...

Hugh Dennis

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Hugh Dennis with Lae Yi Soe, the five-year-old child he sponsors through ActionAid. Photo: Greg Funnell/ActionAid
17 Oct 2014

Ebola virus is a death sentence, and more Ebola myths

As the Ebola outbreak extends its grip on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, global concern has escalated, especially now that nations including the US...

Brand new Ebola treatment unit fills up in less than 24 hours. Photo: ActionAid

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