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TOLUCA, Mexico — She wakes in the top bunk, and there they are: McKenna, Izzy, Sylvia, Molly and other friends from “over there,” in Michigan, smiling down on her from photos clipped to a string of tiny white lights on the wall. Happy lights, happy memories. From before she had to leave America.She brushes her long, brown hair and pulls on her school uniform: blue sweater and skirt, white knee socks. Another day of struggling, in a classroom packed with more than 60 kids, to study logic and algebra in Spanish. It’s her parents’ language, but it’s not hers. Neither is this country.And now, at 16, Lulu has to choose.Here: Her mother and father, both deported, and her little brother, Bryan. They can’t believe Lulu would leave, and she can’t believe she’s considering it.“They are my whole life,” she says.There: Ann Arbor, where she was born, the only home she’s ever known. Her top-notch high school, with small … [Read more...] about For an American teen whose parents were deported to Mexico, an agonizing choice

Sir Patrick Stewart in pictures 0 Have your say Sir Patrick Stewart is one the country’s best-known actors. Chris Bond caught up with him as he returns to Yorkshire to talk about his life on the stage and screen. IT was books, rather than the stars of the silver screen, that hooked Sir Patrick Stewart as a youngster.“They were everything to me because we didn’t have any in our house when I was growing up apart from a few war books of my father’s,” he says. “A while back I found a sealed off box which I opened and it was full of old paperbacks. A lot of them were dog-eared and I was going to give them away but then I realised this pile of books, and there was about 40 or 50 of them, were a record of my childhood reading. I would read books above my age, so there was Tolstoy and Dickens and all kinds of American authors and so forth, and that was the beginning of my cultural education.”The Mirfield-born actor is back on home turf … [Read more...] about Sir Patrick Stewart is back in Huddersfield to talk about his remarkable career