huskies howl ade: finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. more than one million tourists come here each year in search of the northern lights, santa, and his reindeer. the sami are the indigenous people who live in this part of the world from northern norway, sweden, finland, and the far north part of russia. there s around 6,000 samis left in this part of finland, and here, they re known as the inari sami because most of them live around lake inari, which is 250km north of the arctic circle. i ve never been so far north. i m here! after landing in the town of ivalo, just an hour and a half flight from helsinki, i meet my first inari friend. hello! hey! welcome to finland and ivalo. thank you! i m ade. nice to meet you. nice to meet you, i m johanna. nice to meet you look at your outfit! oh, thank you! you look amazing. thank you. is this our transport? yeah, it s going to be our transport for this trip. and we ve got so many things planned for yo
susan caruana waited six long years for this message from her grandson, alex batty. their first direct contact since he failed to return from a holiday in spain with his mother and grandfather. now back in the uk, alex and his grandma have been speaking to the sun newspaper, describing the last time they spoke over the phone in 2017 from a beach in spain. i said to him, you are coming home on saturday, aren t you? and then i heard in the background his mother telling him to put down the phone. all the phones had been switched off, all communications were cut. and ifelt so betrayed. and i was absolutely devastated. alex spent the next few years living a nomadic lifestyle in france and spain with his mother and grandfather. during the whole six years, susan told the sun, i never knew if they were dead or alive. with no school or formal education, alex said he resorted to books. i used to read harry potter, gosh, i ve probably read it about 20 times in complete order. i used