{"id":132654,"date":"2024-12-03T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132654"},"modified":"2024-12-03T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:04:50","slug":"the-sad-life-of-child-star-lena-zavaroni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132654","title":{"rendered":"The sad life of child star Lena Zavaroni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cWhen our wee Lena sang, she lit up the stage,\u201d says Margaret Zavaroni. \u201cBut she was separated from her home, her family. I realise now she was separated from her own adolescence and in the end she just withered away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">It\u2019s been 25 years since the death of <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/personal-view\/3640731\/Celebrity-is-the-death-of-childhood.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lena Zavaroni;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Lena Zavaroni<\/a> \u2013 the little girl who shot to fame, aged just 10, in 1974 by winning TV talent show Opportunity Knocks for a record breaking five weeks in a row. In a new BBC documentary, Lena Zavaroni: Forgotten Child Star, you can see clips of her in her long white socks and pinafore dress, hurling her mighty little lungs into her winning song Ma! (He\u2019s Making Eyes At Me).<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">There\u2019s an echo of the young<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/0\/judy-garland-nightmare-fired-writer-final-movie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Judy Garland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Judy Garland<\/a> in the breathtakingly mature ballast of her rich, deep voice \u2013 a voice which gave the illusion of a character in total control of her life when in reality she felt anything but. By the age of 13 this once \u201cbonny little firecracker\u201d would be diagnosed with the anorexia which became painfully apparent as she fronted her own TV shows from 1979 to 1982, and would eventually lead to her death from pneumonia, aged just 35, in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cGoing back over it all for the documentary was very emotional,\u201d says her cousin Margaret today. Over the phone from the Isle of Bute \u2013 where Lena was born in 1963 \u2013 she sighs that looking back on Lena\u2019s early TV appearances means: \u201cYou\u2019re always thinking: what should we have known? What could we have done? The parents always blame themselves in these cases, don\u2019t they? Her dad, my Uncle Victor, has been destroyed by it all. But we just didn\u2019t know what was happening to her down in London\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The child of musical parents who ran a chip shop in the small town of Rothesay, little Lena was discovered \u2013 singing in a band with her father and uncle \u2013 by record producer and songwriter Tommy Scott in the summer of 1973. By that time he\u2019d scored hits with The Dubliners and Them and he heard echoes of the latter band\u2019s frontman, Van Morrison, in the way he recalls the force of her talent \u201ccoming at me, like a truck\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Scott contacted impresario Phil Solomon and his agent\/manager wife Dorothy Solomon who astonished Lena\u2019s parents \u2013 Victor and Hilda Zavaroni \u2013 by flying up to Bute for just one night to snap up their daughter. Victor had no time to consult lawyers \u2013 a contract was dangled before him like a winning lottery ticket and he signed it. Little Lena flew down to London to live with the Solomons in their Mayfair apartment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Margaret and Lena Zavaroni, as seen in the documentary Lena Zavaroni: The Forgotten Child Star\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/AoJ6ESuYIZsBihqnMoTb7w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTk2MA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_telegraph_258\/d01302da4eaa50a8054debebb7207cbb\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Margaret and Lena Zavaroni, as seen in the documentary Lena Zavaroni: The Forgotten Child Star &#8211; Margaret Zavaroni<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Weren\u2019t the Zavaronis worried? Margaret sighs. \u201cBack then it was all excitement,\u201d she recalls. \u201cWe were so proud. We also thought she\u2019d be coming back home all the time. We didn\u2019t realise that wasn\u2019t what the Solomons wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Former Solomon client Neil Reid agrees. He had been their previous child star and he says that \u201cthe Solomons had learned from their time with me that having parents around could get in the way of their plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Reid had been discovered in 1968 singing at a pensioner\u2019s party near his home in Glasgow aged just eight. He won Opportunity Knocks, aged 12, in 1971 and the following year became the youngest person to top the UK albums chart. He looks back on the era as \u201ca more trusting, deferential time\u201d. So his parents were happy to send him off on a tour of South America with the Solomons in loco parentis. It wasn\u2019t a happy experience for him: \u201cThey were keen to get me shut up into my room so they could go off and have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Lena Zavaroni in the 1970s\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/GpmQZK.EhOOROTzp.AA81w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYwMA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_telegraph_258\/aac28f91c2106a3ac9ae96693af2c815\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Lena Zavaroni in the 1970s &#8211; Steve Wood\/BBC<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">As soon as he returned home he told his parents he didn\u2019t want to go away with the Solomons again and they supported him. \u201cThat became a battle with the Solomons. It was a battle we eventually won, but we really had to fight them.\u201d He feels huge sympathy for Victor Zavaroni who he says \u201cwould have been made to feel he was doing the best for his daughter by not getting in the way of her success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The most chilling part of Reid\u2019s account of his time with the Solomons is his claim of the pressure they put on him to lose weight. \u201cAt 12 I was a chubby kid,\u201d he says. \u201cThey offered to give me a pound [sterling] for every pound [of weight] I lost.\u201d He sighs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Margaret suspects similar pressure may have been put on young Lena as she was whisked around the world to sing with Frank Sinatra and for the then-president Gerald Ford at the White House. \u201cI remember her going on about how the camera is meant to add 10 pounds to your figure or something like that.\u201d She says that Dorothy Solomon \u201cdid seem quite fond of Lena at first, but she didn\u2019t have children of their own and she was out of her depth. Wee Lena was homesick and she was lonely with them. I think she stayed young in her mind, too. She didn\u2019t have the patter of other growing girls around her. She was separated from her own teenage self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">When the Solomons began to realise how unhappy Lena was, they invited 20-year-old Margaret down for a short stay to lift her little cousin\u2019s spirits. At that point the Solomons were employing a tutor for Lena. Margaret believes the situation worsened when they transferred her to the Italia Conti stage school, \u201cwhere all the kids were trying to be skinny\u201d. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2023\/11\/18\/bonnie-langford-interview-doctor-who-sondheim-old-friends\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bonnie Langford;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Bonnie Langford<\/a> was there too, but Margaret notes that Langford \u201chad her parents around, to keep an eye on her and make sure she was alright. But I think that school was very bad for our Lena at a time when her body was changing, when she was becoming a young woman.\u201d Her weight dropped to just four stone while she was at the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">By the age of 15 Lena was diagnosed with depression as well as anorexia. But watching her on television in her teens, it was hard to tell how ill she was becoming. \u201cWe\u2019d all go to Uncle Victor\u2019s to see the shows together,\u201d says Margaret. \u201cAfterwards we\u2019d have a natter about how she wasn\u2019t like that at home. She spoke quite broad Scots but in interviews she sounded different, she quickly got this English accent. She would have made a great actress. She was acting fine when she was really being torn apart by anorexia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Lena Zavaroni, right, with Bonnie Langford in 1978\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/IzGHXo.3M6bt_I8u.cF5NA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYwMA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_telegraph_258\/3402a5af4100cae896a8894b077bd141\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Lena Zavaroni, right, with Bonnie Langford in 1978 &#8211; PA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Looking back, Margaret winces at how little the family understood about the eating disorder which ravaged Lena through the 1980s and 1990s. \u201cLena would get up in the night, while we were sleeping. When I got up in the morning the sink would be full of porridge oats. She would suck them and spit them out. There was no nourishment in that whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Lena\u2019s parents moved down to London to be close to her and soon separated. \u201cShe\u2019d come back to the island to visit her mum, but her dad stayed on in England. She was always closer to her dad.\u201d In 1989, Lena married computer consultant Peter Wilshire \u2013 later admitting she didn\u2019t love him but hoped the union would \u201chelp me to grow up\u201d. Later the same year her mother Hilda died of a tranquilliser overdose and Lena had a fire in her home which destroyed all her showbiz memorabilia. Her marriage broke up after 18 months and she moved to Hertfordshire to be near her father and his second wife. But she was unable to work and had ended up on state benefits.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Lena Zavaroni in the 1980s\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/FQnzNviXT2qnN.Wv80TD5A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYwMA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_telegraph_258\/493ffbf36db15825f48809625bf8bcef\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Lena Zavaroni in the 1980s &#8211; Victor Zavaroni<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cWe would sometimes ask why she didn\u2019t try singing again,\u201d says Margaret. \u201cBut she said she didn\u2019t have the energy. I remember the last time she came up to stay with me \u2013 to sing on Songs of Praise \u2013 and she just curled up in a ball by the fire. I went to the chippy for our tea but she only ate a bit of fish the size of your thumb. She said she was cold and her head was always \u2018fuzzy\u2019.\u201d In her later years, Lena tried to hide her skeletal condition with \u201cbig white coats and padded clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Towards the end of her life Lena underwent electroconvulsive therapy and threatened suicide if doctor\u2019s didn\u2019t attempt brain surgery to alleviate her depression. In September 1999, she was admitted to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for a \u201cpsychosurgical\u201d operation. Although she was reported to be making cheerful conversation during the three weeks she spent in the hospital after the surgery, she contracted pneumonia and died.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Lena Zavaroni with her father Victor in the 1990s\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"607\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/bAaCNPweR2HhpnyGXvO8iw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYwNw--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_telegraph_258\/450f959f9a252ebfccd7ff781fb47827\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Lena Zavaroni with her father Victor in the 1990s &#8211; Victor Zavaroni<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Does Neil Reid think we\u2019ve learned anything from Lena\u2019s story? \u201cA lot has changed,\u201d says Reid, who continued to work as a professional singer throughout his twenties before marrying, becoming a father and retraining as a financial adviser. \u201cThese days you\u2019d never tell a child to lose weight like that. We now accept that people come in all shapes and sizes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Although Margaret Zavaroni thinks \u201cyou don\u2019t see young kids on talent shows so much any more\u201d, the minimum age for X Factor contestants has fluctuated between 14 and 16 over the past decade. There is no minimum age for contestants on <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/britains-got-talent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Britain\u2019s Got Talent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/a> \u2013 which has auditioned children as young as 4-5 \u2013 and last year the youngest child to audition was Camille Hunt, aged just 6. \u201cI do think that Lena\u2019s story helped educate people about anorexia,\u201d concludes Margaret. \u201cI hope it showed people that it\u2019s often something that happens when people are trying to get control over situations.\u201d She sighs. \u201cI do believe that, in raising awareness, Lena saved lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"col-body my-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\"><em>Lena Zavaroni: the Forgotten Child Star is on BBC Two, Friday December 6 at 9pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscribe\/3months\/?WT.mc_id=tmg_yahoo_subsoffers_-Yahoo&amp;utm_source=tmgoff&amp;utm_medium=tmg_yahoo&amp;utm_content=subsoffers_&amp;utm_campaign=tmg_yahoo_subsoffers_-Yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. 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