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The pet I’ll never forget: my giant stick insect, who ruled her empire like a spiny queen

While her underlings attempted to escape from their see-through Alcatraz, there was little to interest her outside the tank. That may have saved her from death by cat

The Guardian - UK

California dreamin': why San Francisco to Los Angeles should be your next fly drive holiday with kids

From e-biking over the Golden Gate bridge to hiking to the Hollywood sign, with dolphin spotting and rollercoaster rides in-between, Elliot Wagland discovered that a road trip on the route 101 offered all the family fun his brood had dreamed of

Evening Standard

Louise Minchin: from the breakfast sofa to Alcatraz’s shark-infested waters

The former ‘BBC Breakfast’ host set out to find the world’s most courageous female adventurers for her book, ‘Fearless’. In this extract, she finds herself in the slipstream with two daring young swimmers

The Independent UK

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Bibby Stockholm: the UK’s own Alcatraz?

Arriving on the Bibby Stockholm was like “entering Alcatraz prison”, according to one of the first asylum seekers to board the controversial barge.

The Week

Inside abandoned 'Alcatraz' home to murderers including killer who butchered 100

The abandoned Islas Marias prison, once dubbed Mexico's answer to Alcatraz, was almost impossible to escape thanks to its remote island location surrounded by shark-infested waters

Daily Mirror

'I ventured into Alcatraz after dark and was terrified by what I saw and heard'

Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara, the hosts of Watcher Production's "Ghost Files," went to the prisonoff the coast of San Francisco to investigate the rumours of it being haunted

Daily Mirror

Inside maximum security prison ISIS Beatle will go to - from where nobody escaped

ISIS Beatle member El Shafee Elsheikh is set for decades inside the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' when he is sentenced today. Prisoners held there survive in near-continuous solitary confinement

Daily Mirror

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Recovered quadriplegic from Chicago prepares to swim in San Francisco Bay to raise awareness of paralysis. ‘Doesn’t surprise me a bit,’ says mom

CHICAGO — From the beach where he swims on Lake Michigan, Rob Heitz can point out the green facade of the rehabilitation hospital where he began his recovery journey after being paralyzed from the neck down 19 years ago.

Chicago Tribune

Mystery of Alcatraz inmates' escape may FINALLY be solved after 70 years

Marking the 60th anniversary, the mystery could finally be solved once and for all as DNA testing will reveal if the Anglins went on to father children in South America

Daily Mirror

Three prisoners feared dead after escaping Alcatraz 60 years ago could still be alive

Pictures by a forensic artist of Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin and John Anglin have been released by the US Marshals Service who are still hunting the men, 60 years after they escaped from Alcatraz prison

Daily Mirror

US marshals release sketches of three men who escaped from Alcatraz in the 1960s and could still be at large

Frank Morris, as well as brothers Clarence and John Anglin, escaped from the famed, now-defunct island prison in San Francisco Bay, on 11 June, 1962

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