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WORKING ICONS: THE RSPCA The RSPCA receives thousands of job applications every year but it’s not all about puppy rescue. inspectors have to be prepared to handle large snakes as well as hot- headed members of the public. 1 In 1822 when Richard Martin steered the first anti-cruelty Bill 1) for animals through Parliament, animals were simply seen as products you could exploit. The world’s first ever Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) was founded and in 1840 Queen Victoria added the Royal seal of approval. As word spread about the work of the RSPCA, funds poured in and soon London’s single inspector was joined by a team of regional officers who formed the heart of today’s national network of 175 branches in England and Wales. 2 The RSPCA employs 323 uniformed inspectors and 146 Animal 4 Collection Officers who can be called on at any time of the day or night to attend to animals in distress. Its inspectors also play an important part in educating the public about animal welfare. They have to rescue animals and sadly, in some cases, put badly- hurt creatures to sleep. Although inspectors don’t currently have the authority to prosecute, they can order the removal into care of animals in danger. There is also an international branch which can help respond to emergencies such as oil spills. are going to find when you follow up a call. I would be lying if I said I’ve never been scared when confronting an owner.”

How I ran around the world 25-YEAR-OLD DAN WILSON TELLS ABOUT A YEAR IN WHICH HE RAN 26 MARATHONS 1 I’d survived a heat wave in Trinidad and nearly killed myself running up a Swiss alp, yet here I was lying bleeding on the ground with the end so temptingly in sight. Four miles into the last of my 26 marathons, I suddenly got tangled up in some wire and took the mother of all tumbles. My knees and elbows took the full force of the fall and I was in a mess. But having come so far, there was no way 4 I was going to fail, even if it meant crossing the line in a wheelchair. Luckily, I was able to hitch a lift to the nearest A&E department 1) where I was patched up within an hour. I rejoined the race at the point where I had fallen and hobbled the rest of the marathon. In spite of the pain, I felt an incredible sense of achievement. 2 Over the past year I have pushed my body to the limit. My father Richard, who’s 62, was told seven years ago that he had Parkinson’s disease. I ran a few half marathons to 5 raise money for the Parkinson’s Society but I wanted to do more. So I decided to complete a marathon for every letter of the alphabet. Finding all 26 was a challenge and I had to be a little creative. X for example was for the Exe Marathon in Exmouth. And ideally, I would have spaced them out 6 at the rate of two a month but I ended up running two marathons on successive days. 3 Before starting, in Dubai, I’d never done a marathon but I did plenty of preparation, training up to five times a week. All the hard work paid off when I completed the race in four hours, two minutes. It proved to be my

Sophie Campbell went to Singapore for the city’s celebrated ‘Night Safari’ OONLIGHT. Out of the trees steps a tiger. Orange coat, white belly, all griddled with stripes. Sprays of whiskers caught in the moonbeams. Massive paws. He strolls down 5 to the river, files his claw thoughtfully on a log, steps over it and slides into the water. The territory is 40 hectares of rain-forest, next to the respected Singapore Gardens. The Night Safari Park opens at 7.30pm as night falls and closes at midnight. 10 Its inhabitants are the nocturnal creatures — otters, leopards, rhinos — which you never really see in a daylight zoo because they are curled up and snoring. Night Safari, now nine years old, is one of Singapore's top tourist attractions. Even so, the old rules 15 about animals still apply. On the night I was there, the Creatures Of The Night Show — with humorous commentary by a keeper with a headset — ground to a halt because the first act (a large owl) refused to come on. The mutiny spread: a leopard failed to appear on its platform. The Night Safari is staggeringly popular and since its great charm is the illusion that 20 you are out there with the animals, it really is worth aiming for solitude. You can walk — there are three different walking trails — or take the open-sided tram, which does a West Loop and an East Loop. My advice is to turn up at 9pm, avoid the show, always packed, and while everyone else is watching it, do one of the walking trails. The authentic jungle noises alone make 25 the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. You should get back just as the people watching the show rush off on the trams. This is your cue to dine at the Bongo Bongo Burger Bar and walk another trail to work off the food. As the stampede begins for the exit, you nip on to the last tram (11.15pm), and survey the creatures in peace!

Eat up or pay up One London restaurant is cracking down on customers. Emily Ashton finds out why 1 t is a guilt trip inflicted on most children who leave sprouts or cabbage on their plates. “Eat up,” their mothers chide, “think of those starving children in Africa who don’t have such luxuries.” A few grimacing mouthfuls later, the plate is empty. Adults will be reminded of their youth when they step into one Nigerian restaurant in east London and are faced with a £2.50 fine if they fail to finish what they have taken for dinner. At the Obalende Suya Express restaurant in Dalston, the penalty for greed is donated straight to the local Oxfam shop. 2 The West African barbecue eatery attracts a full house every Sunday with its Grill Greedy buffet, with trays and dishes overflowing with steaming meats and fried bananas. As customers fill their plates, however, they can hardly miss a big red sign warning 4 them to make sure they eat it all up. Lara Odebunmi, who owns the restaurant with her husband Toks, says: “We realised a lot of people were wasting their food rather than finishing it, just because they could ‘eat as much as they liked’. They kept on 23 but they were only ever able to finish one plateful. At the end of the night, we felt really bad dumping all this food into the bin.” 3 FareShare, a national organisation that redistributes surplus food from 5 restaurants and shops to local charities, believes that the food sector trend-setting eating establishment.

Customers have to walk through the fast-food front to reach the softly lit dining room at the back, where 8 brightly coloured paintings adorn the walls and chefs work busily in the open kitchen. African music drifts out quietly as muted football matches are played on the wall-mounted television 9 screen. The restaurant’s name comes from Obalende, the popular area of Nigeria’s former capital, Lagos, which is famed for its suya: spiced meat that has been specially grilled on skewers. 6 Although it is the take-out part of the business, selling barbecued sandwiches and suya dishes, that attracts the most diners on weekdays, it is the dining area that draws in the guests at weekends. “Our buffet 10 regulars love the pounded yam, the jollof rice (steamed rice with tomatoes, onion, pepper and spices) and the barbecued chicken,” says manager Kenny Amuzu. At £13.95, the unlimited food deal is good value, notwithstanding the possible ₤ 2.50 surcharge. 7 The Suya Express isn’t the only restaurant with charitable inclinations. Sandwich chain Pret A Manger also offers its remaining produce to charity, 11 supplying FareShare with around 18 empty, so is the Oxfam fine pot.

Granny Having a Go! the coldest and the hottest landscapes. They will fly over jungle, desert and frozen seas, making 127 landings in 34 countries in 189 exhausting days. 3 co-pilot Colin Bodhill in 2003, Murray crashed in a blizzard on Antarctica in temperatures of -40 degrees Celsius. Lying in a hastily put up tent, with a dislocated elbow, cracked ribs and facial cuts alongside Bodhill whose back was broken, she distracted herself from the 1 The last time Jennifer Murray attempted a world helicopter record in December 2003, she crashed on the ice of 4 Antarctica in a tangle of crushed metal. She was severely injured and lay waiting in the piercing cold for a rescue team that took hours to arrive. Now she’s having another go. And it’s precisely the same challenge: circling the globe in a tiny helicopter via both North and South Poles, which is a feat of skill and endurance never achieved before. Yet here’s the truly shocking thing: Murray is 5 not a young, struggling, sky-struck heroine. She is rich and most startling of all she is a 66-year-old grandmother. So why is she attempting something that almost killed her last time? “It’s unfinished business,” she explains. “We’ve ghosts to lay to rest.” 2 Murray holds several flying records of her own. She was the first woman to co- pilot a helicopter around the globe and the first to do it solo. But these were both flights from East to West. The big one, this truly nerve-racking challenge, is to circle the earth via the poles experiencing