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Children are our future, and this book is about their future. As a scientist who has studied the climate from pole-to-pole, and as a parent with two young daughters, I believe there is no more important issue to inform and educate young people about."
Dr Tony Juniper CBE is an environmentalist and writer. He is Chair of the official Nature recovery agency Natural England, a fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Chair of Cool Earth. He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth, Executive Director at WWF, President of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts and Special Advisor to the Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit.This latest title in the heritage non-fiction series for Ladybird and has been newly illustrated by up-and-coming talent Aleesha Nandhra. Obituary based on stories and anecdotes from Tony Pikes: The story behind the Ibiza legend – to get the true grit and Tony’s firsthand account of his life’s story, buy the book!
John Cooper learned of his sister’s murder during a phone call to their mother, Zena, in which he heard Natasha Cooper calling her on the landline screaming: “She’s dead, there’s blood everywhere.” King’s storytelling in Fairy Talesoars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy – and his dog – must lead the battle. A Ladybird Book: Climate Change" includes an Afterword in which The Prince Charles, the former Prince of Wales sets out a personal message to readers. (The Afterword was written last year, when His Majesty The King was still The Prince of Wales.) He said: “In her final minutes she was faced with brutality and horror. We are haunted of the thought of what she endured.” Speaking of their relationship, he said: “We played, we laughed, we fought, she was my sister and now she’s gone.” Writing in Air Mail, Victoria Segal shared some impressions of King’s memoir. Segal writes that King “knows how to balance irreverent entertainment with respectful discretion” and “has little interest in dishing real dirt.” And it sounds like a compelling read, from its firsthand accounts of some of music’s biggest names to what Segal describes as a harrowing look at the rise of AIDS.
In an unpublished TikTok video the following day, after the murder took place, he recorded himself saying: “I have just taken a life today.”
When the team were thinking about new titles and what topics children might be interested in, climate change and the importance of protecting our world was something we really wanted to explore," Walden said. The roll call of Pikes hotel guests reads like a magazine gossip column at times: Mike Oldfield (who stole Tony’s girlfriend at the time), Joan Baez, Frank Zappa, Boy George, Kylie Minogue, Spandau Ballet, Brigitte Nielsen, Robert Plant, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Kenny Everett, the English football team, Bon Jovi and even Tony Curtis (who Tony Pike refused to lend his car to!). There were the iconic songstresses he famously romanced, Sade and Grace Jones, (this gentleman did indeed kiss and tell in his memoir) and the many superstar DJs of the world who passed through the island as Ibiza cemented its reputation as the clubbing capital of the world. In between romancing his glamorous guests over the years, Tony also committed to two more marriages, which in turn produced two more children.In 1951, Tony left the navy with dreams of emigrating to Australia. His strong work ethic saw him take on all types of work within the building trade – which would go on to serve him well when building Pikes in the late 70s – and after a year of saving, he found himself on a ship bound for Sydney; this time as a passenger rather than crew. It’s worth noting that his renowned exploits as a ladies’ man began at this point; despite much bragging about his experience with women prior to the journey, it was during a stopover in Yemen on that fateful trip that Tony finally declared himself “a man”. His work life in Australia was varied – he began working in millinery (where he met his first wife and the mother of his firstborn son), had a stint in the Australian Army, alongside labouring jobs and sales work. With his natural-born gift of the gab, selling was something Tony excelled at.
King then told officers: “I just took her life and, to this day, I don’t know why. She hadn’t done anything wrong.”The words legend and iconic are bandied around quite liberally these days and yet no one in Ibiza – quite possibly even the world – embodied both terms more than Anthony John Pike. Over the course of his lifetime, Tony would be called many more things – playboy, entrepreneur, hedonist, storyteller, raconteur, entertainer, lovable rogue, gentleman, businessman, lover, ‘the Hugh Hefner of Ibiza’ (thank you Boy George) and even ‘the ringmaster for 30 years of celebrity debauchery’ (courtesy of The Guardian). These were among the more flattering descriptions; as for the others, well, as Tony was known to say – you can’t always be everyone’s cup of tea.
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