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Truth, they say, is stranger than fiction and so it is with Alternative 3. A television documentary broadcast nearly 40 years ago followed by the book Alternative 3—a book so many wanted suppressed. The programme revealed that Earth was doomed, mankind faced destruction - Mass panic followed. The evidence...The world was overheating - but no one had heard of global warming! Strange weather patterns, floods, crops withering in the parched earth. Scientists mysteriously vanishing. Reports of kidnapping and brainwashing.

From humble junior reporter on the Luton News to globe-trotting feature writer for the Daily Mail and a sometime television executive - this is Leslie Watkins - Les to his friends - reporting the news over 70 years. He tells of Fleet Street in its heyday revealing what went on inside the newspaper world, of scoop after scoop, fake news, murder, and political corruption. Honest, humorous, surprising, and sometimes tragic his journalist's eye view of the world, of breaking news, drink fuelled editorial feuds, and dirty tricks lifts the lid on journalism's golden age.

Leslie Watkins' unabridged collection of three volumes exploring sleep, a mystery packed with surprises. Most people are unaware that every night vast numbers of sleepwalkers display totally unexpected behavior. They move around in their hundreds, in their thousands, and they’re spread through...

How did a beautiful little blonde girl called Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp predict her own violent murder when she was a teenager? Reeva made headlines around the world after Valentine's Day 2013, when she was savagely killed by her lover - double-amputee paralympic champion and Olympic runner Oscar...

By the age of 60, most of us will have been sleeping for a total of roughly 20 years. That’s how we spend about a third of our lives. Yet, few of us are aware of the oddities which tend to trespass through our slumbers - or of the strange somnambulism that can erupt when we’ve drifted into...

Sleep is a mystery packed with surprises. Most people are unaware that every night vast numbers of sleepwalkers display totally unexpected behavior. They move around in their hundreds, in their thousands, and they're spread through every town and city in the world. There's the famous musician...