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Building a wall of prayer
“This is the first time I’ve built a national landmark, so I feel like I’m making it up as I go along,” this tall but modest business leader tells me.But Richard Gamble, who is also a man of faith – you have to be... read more »
Billy the Whizz
Viliami Vunipola – generally known as “Billy” – was born in Australia of Tongan parents but is now very much part of the England Rugby set-up for the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup. The family moved to the UK when Billy was about six... read more »
Street Angels hit the clubs
Every weekend hundreds of people head into town and city centres. These people are not there to have a drink or spend the night clubbing but rather become Angels to help others have a safe and fun night out.Street Angels was launched in Halifax,... read more »
Cold, silence and solitude
In the summer of 1967 a guy halts his steps in a field in Wiltshire, retraces his steps the way he came for a few yards – then turns back. He repeats this to-ing and fro-ing for a while. At some point he steps... read more »
Heard It on the grapevine
He’s one of the BBC’s highest earners – a broadcaster who has spanned the realms of radio, TV and politics. As Jeremy Vine prepares to release his memoir What I Learnt… he chats to Sorted about how he’s balanced his personal faith with his... read more »
The Bear truth
Survivalist, television star, Chief Scout, Sorted contributor and all-round action man Bear Grylls has been with us from the very start. In this exclusive chat to Editor Steve Legg, Bear talks about his journey with the magazine and Running Wild with Barrack Obama.You always seem... read more »
Sorted 10 years on
To celebrate Sorted magazine’s tenth birthday, editor and founder Steve Legg chatted with columnist and sci-fi author Alex Willmott about the journey so far.As I reflect on a decade of Sorted magazine hitting the shelves, I’m reminded of how it all started – with... read more »
The inside man
John Lord was a villain through and through. He was addicted to drugs from an early age and was considered a menace to society.Not my words but his, although had you told him that, way back in the days before he accepted Jesus into... read more »
Toy story
Sorted editor Steve Legg headed to Little Chalfont to speak to Gary Grant, the founder and managing director of The Entertainer, the UK’s largest independent toy retailer, to find out what has changed since his store opened in 1981, why treating kids like royalty is... read more »
21 years of XLP
The phone rang back in 1996. My vicar called to tell me that there had been a stabbing in the playground at a local school, and that he had told them that I’d go in and see what I could do. I’d been in... read more »