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‘I've seen situations where we didn't speak to each other for six hours because someone was so angry. That's just the competitiveness of the house. There must be something in the Charles-Cook blood…'

'We would like to try and break out of here. We are hoping for cease fire and green corridor. It would be a pity to come all this way and after years of waiting for a drug to stop her disease progression and to go home empty-handed. We need rituximab or something similar. Without it Ira will not be able to survive much longer. 

I started during lockdown. A bit late, some would say given my age, but at least I've started. In the past, my income has been unpredictable and it has not been easy for me to plan ahead. It always felt like a welcome surprise when money came in. Also, I had other financial priorities.

I bought that white jacket when I was about 30 because I suddenly thought, this is ridiculous, I've got to sometimes buy new clothes.
The first time I wore the jacket was for the wrap party of the TV series I'd been doing. A colleague fell over and cut her wrist on a glass and I took her to hospital. She was fine, but there was a lot of blood and my jacket was ruined. I took that incident as a sign that I shouldn't have bought it.

'I wanted what was next for me, I wanted my next adventure- my next challenge. I'm thankful for whoever heard me. You gifted me this. No matter how dark the world might get I will always know that the light is right around the corner.
My beautiful boy Ziggy.'

I had a deal for two books - one on Helen of Troy and the other on Socrates. I also did three television series in that year. Overall, I think I earned £75,000. But I was working at least 80 hours a week. My kids called my books 'the treacherous books' because they hated the fact that the door of my study was closed when I was writing. 

‘I even got gifts and cards sent to the club and it really felt like people were going the extra mile to support me. The feedback from fans, not just the Ross County supporters, came from all around the world.'

Ross County are happy to offer a platform for the rehabilitation of players who need a budge back up the ladder and, if a return to English football is on the cards, then he will always be grateful to the Staggies for breathing life into a career which started alongside Joe Aribo at Charlton before stalling slightly at Gillingham.

I like a massage wherever I am in the world.
When I'm doing TV shows, I am often in really weird positions - crawling through tombs or hanging off the edges of ancient sites. So a massage is my treat to myself. I will spend anything from £35 to £135. I have about four a year.

ing.  The prince was so sweet with her. And the picture with the Duchess of Cambridge [left, on shelf] was at an education event I hosted for The Royal Foundation. We're both passionate about supporting children and their

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I have always been careful with money and lived within my means. I've not had a credit card, nor spent more than what I have. I was brought up to think that if work came along I was lucky to have it. So all my life I have worked six or seven days a week. 

When I was doing my academic research before I became a TV historian, I would also teach and lecture.
But that was never a problem for me because I love what I do. I have always managed to make my expenditure meet what I earn.

It's hard to begrudge young men living 600 miles from home in an environment so remote from London that it might as well be the dark side of the moon, some home comforts. Not that Regan Charles-Cook necessarily feels any desperate pining need to return to the Big Smoke as soon as the Caledonian Sleeper will take him.

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