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Life’s Big Coincidences: Being in the right place at the right time

Apple Mike Evans - 5 October 2022

Have you ever travelled to a location only to find yourself on the spot when an international news event takes place? Mike recounts two Big Coincidence moments, one of which was being in Cupertino on the day that Steve Jobs died exactly eleven years ago...

Ich war dabei: At Checkpoint Charlie as the Berlin Wall fell

Feature Articles Mike Evans - 29 October 2019

The Wall, East Germany, “Democracy”: 30 years on, Mike pays a return visit to the spot on which he stood in November 1989. The weekend the Wall fell.

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