After university Christine wrote poetry, but she never published any. She had various jobs; she worked in the Arts in Bristol; she managed an art gallery, worked on an arts magazine, and wrote a grammar for foreign learners for IBM.

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Veteran nature documentary maker David Attenborough has set himself a challenge to find the Yeti.

A Cuban dog has been nursing 14 piglets and her own litter of pups.

A group of Japanese mountaineers claim to have photographed footprints of the legendary Yeti that they believe could prove the long-rumoured existence of a giant ape living in the Himalayan peaks.