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2 days ago
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How the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources handles nuisance bears
BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — Now that it is getting warmer, West Virginia's black bears will be out and about looking for food sources to fatten up with for the colder months ahead. Unfortunately, this puts some of them directly in the path of humans. Once again, people are asking if there are mountain lions in the Mountain State Black bears are already starting to eat as much as they can before their next round of hibernation. One resident in Clear Creek found out the hard way; whatever is in their trash bin is on the menu. Samantha Thompson saw a black bear recently. She said she told her neighbors who were already aware of the bear, and they reported it to DNR. DNR set a trap and caught the bear, but what came next shocked Thompson. 'Our understanding was that when they trap the bear, they're gonna take it and relocate it. They're gonna tag it, take it, and relocate it. I was told after the fact that no that was not correct, that most bears, unfortunately, are destroyed rather than being relocated,' said Thompson. Thompson said she was saddened to hear about the death of the bear, commenting that she wishes that the incident had never occurred. This may have you wondering 'why not just release the bear elsewhere?' Colin Carpenter, Black Bear Project Leader for the DNR, said the bears are dispatched for a number of reasons, though they never want to have to harm any of them. 'First being our experience and the scientific literature shows that removing adult bears is typically ineffective. Because their rates of return are higher, they don't do as well in a new environment. So, since 2011, any bear over 140 pounds we have put down, dispatched,' said Carpenter. Carpenter said relocated adult bears will also still try to get back to their home range. They may also find another area populated by humans that has easily accessible food sources as well. He said there is another major reason in play as well. 'Because we have bears everywhere in West Virginia now, you know, thirty years ago when we were moving bears regularly, we didn't have bears in every available habitat. We had places to take them. Now, we have bears statewide. So, moving bears is not a solution to the problem. The solution is addressing the food attractant that's causing the issue,' said Carpenter. How can you help West Virginia's native bats? Carpenter advises everyone to do their own reach on how to live effectively and safely in bear country. He said they never want to dispatch a bear, but that they cannot risk someone being hurt. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Lakota Music Project Merges Two Traditions for One Common Cause
The Prairie Wind Casino and Hotel is a couple of modest buildings just inside the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota. On a recent morning, the hotel, surrounded by vast expanses of rolling land, was almost empty, but the low-ceilinged banquet room was filled with music. Nine members of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and their conductor, Delta David Gier, were working on a piece with the Dakota flutist Bryan Akipa. They were figuring out how Akipa, who doesn't read music, could be cued for a new section. Emmanuel Black Bear — the keeper of the drum, or leader, of the Creekside Singers, a traditional Lakota drum and vocal ensemble — was huddling with the composer Derek Bermel in the hotel's lobby. Bermel had transcribed some Creekside recordings, arranging a part for the symphony players to join with the Native musicians. One challenge: Black Bear and his group don't commit in advance to a given tempo when they're performing their richly wailing songs. 'Sometimes we get excited and want to sing it fast,' he said of one song. 'Sometimes it's lullaby-ish. It's not set in stone.' This was a day of colleagues and friends making music together, working through obstacles like those in any rehearsal process. But since the artists involved were part of the orchestra's longstanding Lakota Music Project, the goal was far greater than just getting ready for a concert: This collaboration between Native American and Western classical artists aimed to address a whole history of racial tension. 'Racism and prejudice, how do we counteract that?' Black Bear said in an interview. 'I've always said it's through music. If non-Native people can see us in our natural way of life — music and dance and ceremony and prayer — maybe their minds will change about who we are. Not every one of us is the stereotype. We're not all drunks and druggies.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
The Irish Sun
5 days ago
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- The Irish Sun
It's part of what actors do but it's never a joy, says Gillian Anderson as she reveals all about filming sex scenes
A TWO-MAN tent on the windy south-west coast of England might not be everyone's ideal spot for a steamy encounter. But that is where former X-Files actress film The Salt Path, about a homeless couple embarking on a 630-mile trek. 8 Gillian Anderson filmed a sex scene in a tent on the windy south-west coast of England Credit: Getty 8 Gillian was filming with White Lotus star Jason Isaacs for upcoming film The Salt Path Credit: Black Bear 8 Gillian says she has become used to unexpected demands when it comes to filming sex scenes Credit: Getty She was even asked to Mum-of-three Gillian, 56, said: 'That is something you just expect as an actor. "That's part of what one does. I had an experience for many, many years working with the same actor every day. 'I've also done READ MORE GILLIAN ANDERSON "So you're thrown stuff all the time and just show whatever you're given. 'And Jason makes it very easy. He's very amenable, he's very likeable. 'And certainly physically, we feel like we're the same language — certainly by the end. 'We feel like our journey is baked into us, and we feel like we're part of the same conversation.' Most read in Celebrity So is sex in a tent ever a good idea? Gillian said: 'Well, sex in the back of a car, sex anywhere, I mean, yeah, why not? 'Uncomfortable, tight quarters, but needs must . . .' Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in the The Crown season 4 trailer The star became an international sex symbol playing FBI special agent Secret desires Since then she has enjoyed a distinguished three-decade career that has seen her take on a variety of roles, from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown to therapist Jean Milburn in Netflix's racy series Sex Education. She has also found time to become a real-life crusader for female sexual empowerment and is currently working on a follow-up to her hugely successful 2024 book, Want. The collection of anonymous female sexual fantasies included one from a woman who wanted to be intimate with an office doorknob. I read the book and I couldn't speak for days. I was really profoundly affected by it. I think I might have threatened them within an inch of their lives to hire me! Gillian even hid one of her own fantasies in the mix — although she has not revealed which one — and has hinted that she may put more of her own secret desires in book two. The Salt Path is based on the book of the same name by long-distance walker and writer Raynor Winn. It tells her real-life tale of walking from Minehead in Somerset to Poole, Dorset, with her husband Moth after he is diagnosed with an incurable neuro-degenerative disease called corticobasal degeneration, or CBD. The couple had also become homeless in 2013, so they decided to set out on the 630-mile South West Coast Path with nothing but a tent bought on eBay, £115 in cash and a paycard to withdraw £48 a week in tax credits. 8 Gillian became famous for her role as FBI agent Dana Scully in The X Files television series Credit: Fox TV 8 Gillian has become an outspoken advocate for women's empowerment when it comes to sex Credit: PA:Press Association The heartwarming book went on to sell more than a million copies and, at this week's Hay Literary Festival, Raynor described the moment she found out that Gillian was going to play her in the film. She said: 'I thought, 'How is that ever going to work? She's so perfect, so glamorous, so beautiful. How is she going to capture me at such a raw moment in my life?' ' The tent sex scene with White Lotus star Jason did not feature in the book, but was added by writers for the movie adaptation, which was released on Friday. Raynor added: 'There's only one particularly hot scene in that book — I gave them big waves. I got back a sweaty scene in a tent.' For Gillian, playing Raynor became one of her most challenging roles, but one that she was desperate to play. She said: 'I read the book and I couldn't speak for days. I was really profoundly affected by it. I think I might have threatened them within an inch of their lives to hire me!' Gillian has always been drawn to playing strong women and found that becoming those characters on screen instilled a new-found confidence. Rebellious teenager She said on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast: 'I think it awakened in me a kind of stirring in my own sense of my sexual self and sensual self. 'I don't know whether it had always been asleep or whether it was awake when I was younger and then was asleep. 'But the fact that so much of my career as an actor — starting as Scully in my 20s, where suddenly I was consistently called on to be the smartest in the room — I was asked to show up and believe that I could do those things. "It showed that I had it somewhere in me to look that smart, to be that powerful, to be that confident, to walk that way.' Gillian was born in Chicago but raised in London during her early years. Most of the time when I show up to work, particularly at the beginning of a job, I think I am going to be fired. Every single job, the first two days are hell. Then the family moved back to the US when she was 11 and she later became a rebellious teenager. She went through a lesbian phase, was arrested and dabbled in punk — getting into what she called 'dangerous things'. By the time she was 14 she was in therapy . Ten years later, while living on benefits in Michigan, she landed the X-Files job — and found overnight global fame. But Gillian admits she still struggles to conform. She told the We Can Do Hard Things podcast: 'I always have been a bit of an outsider. I didn't really make a lot of friends in high school. 'My hair was always not unlike it is right now — ratty and not curled. 'Then I started wearing oversized thrift clothes, cinching it with a belt, pointy black boots with buckles, and I started to shave my head and have a Mohawk. Also, by then I'd had a lesbian relationship that they all knew about and teased me about. 'I was kind of on the outside. Then true to form, on graduation night, I was actually arrested, because I tried to break into the high school with my then boyfriend to glue the locks shut.' 8 Gillian has been in a long-term relationship with The Crown writer Peter Morgan Credit: Getty 8 Gillian's daughter Piper is one of her three children, she also has two teenage boys Credit: Getty 'I started panicking' Gillian, who has been married twice, currently lives in London where she has been in a long-term relationship with The Crown writer Mum to daughter Piper, 30, and sons Oscar , 18, and 16-year-old Felix, she juggles acting with running the soft drinks company she founded with Peter's son, Robin. And despite being at the top of her game for more than 30 years, she admits she still feels insecure at times. On "She is a big deal in the UK. And she's a very divisive character and however people feel about her, there's no middle ground — they either absolutely hate her or they love her. "So I knew people felt very strongly, and obviously I wanted to do a good job. So I felt quite a lot of pressure.' She added: 'Most of the time when I show up to work, particularly at the beginning of a job, I think I am going to be fired. 'Every single job, the first two days are hell. Literally I think that I'm going to be fired and that the producers are huddling around the monitor. I'm literally going, 'Oh my God, what have I done?' 'And so the point is that I can do that and act as if I am this confident person, despite having panic attacks. 'If I can do those things, then as far as I'm concerned, anybody can.' 8 Gillian says she was profoundly affected by The Salt Path story and was excited to film the movie Credit: Kevin Baker/Black Bear
Scottish Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
It's part of what actors do but it's never a joy, says Gillian Anderson as she reveals all about filming sex scenes
Gillian says she finds the first two days of filming a new project to be the scariest part SEX FILES It's part of what actors do but it's never a joy, says Gillian Anderson as she reveals all about filming sex scenes A TWO-MAN tent on the windy south-west coast of England might not be everyone's ideal spot for a steamy encounter. But that is where former X-Files actress Gillian Anderson found herself acting out a sex scene for her new film The Salt Path, about a homeless couple embarking on a 630-mile trek. Advertisement 8 Gillian Anderson filmed a sex scene in a tent on the windy south-west coast of England Credit: Getty 8 Gillian was filming with White Lotus star Jason Isaacs for upcoming film The Salt Path Credit: Black Bear 8 Gillian says she has become used to unexpected demands when it comes to filming sex scenes Credit: Getty She was even asked to squeeze into a sleeping bag with co-star Jason Isaacs — and now she has spoken about the awkwardness of filming intimate acts with someone you barely know. Mum-of-three Gillian, 56, said: 'That is something you just expect as an actor. "That's part of what one does. I had an experience for many, many years working with the same actor every day. 'I've also done sex scenes on the first day of working, which is never a joy at any time during filming. Advertisement "So you're thrown stuff all the time and just show whatever you're given. 'And Jason makes it very easy. He's very amenable, he's very likeable. 'And certainly physically, we feel like we're the same language — certainly by the end. 'We feel like our journey is baked into us, and we feel like we're part of the same conversation.' Advertisement So is sex in a tent ever a good idea? Gillian said: 'Well, sex in the back of a car, sex anywhere, I mean, yeah, why not? 'Uncomfortable, tight quarters, but needs must . . .' Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in the The Crown season 4 trailer The star became an international sex symbol playing FBI special agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, alongside David Duchovny as special agent Fox Mulder, in the original hit series that ran from 1993 to 2002. Secret desires Since then she has enjoyed a distinguished three-decade career that has seen her take on a variety of roles, from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown to therapist Jean Milburn in Netflix's racy series Sex Education. Advertisement She has also found time to become a real-life crusader for female sexual empowerment and is currently working on a follow-up to her hugely successful 2024 book, Want. The collection of anonymous female sexual fantasies included one from a woman who wanted to be intimate with an office doorknob. I read the book and I couldn't speak for days. I was really profoundly affected by it. I think I might have threatened them within an inch of their lives to hire me! Gillian even hid one of her own fantasies in the mix — although she has not revealed which one — and has hinted that she may put more of her own secret desires in book two. The Salt Path is based on the book of the same name by long-distance walker and writer Raynor Winn. Advertisement It tells her real-life tale of walking from Minehead in Somerset to Poole, Dorset, with her husband Moth after he is diagnosed with an incurable neuro-degenerative disease called corticobasal degeneration, or CBD. The couple had also become homeless in 2013, so they decided to set out on the 630-mile South West Coast Path with nothing but a tent bought on eBay, £115 in cash and a paycard to withdraw £48 a week in tax credits. 8 Gillian became famous for her role as FBI agent Dana Scully in The X Files television series Credit: Fox TV 8 Gillian has become an outspoken advocate for women's empowerment when it comes to sex Credit: PA:Press Association Advertisement The heartwarming book went on to sell more than a million copies and, at this week's Hay Literary Festival, Raynor described the moment she found out that Gillian was going to play her in the film. She said: 'I thought, 'How is that ever going to work? She's so perfect, so glamorous, so beautiful. How is she going to capture me at such a raw moment in my life?' ' The tent sex scene with White Lotus star Jason did not feature in the book, but was added by writers for the movie adaptation, which was released on Friday. Raynor added: 'There's only one particularly hot scene in that book — I gave them big waves. I got back a sweaty scene in a tent.' Advertisement For Gillian, playing Raynor became one of her most challenging roles, but one that she was desperate to play. She said: 'I read the book and I couldn't speak for days. I was really profoundly affected by it. I think I might have threatened them within an inch of their lives to hire me!' Gillian has always been drawn to playing strong women and found that becoming those characters on screen instilled a new-found confidence. Rebellious teenager She said on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast: 'I think it awakened in me a kind of stirring in my own sense of my sexual self and sensual self. Advertisement 'I don't know whether it had always been asleep or whether it was awake when I was younger and then was asleep. 'But the fact that so much of my career as an actor — starting as Scully in my 20s, where suddenly I was consistently called on to be the smartest in the room — I was asked to show up and believe that I could do those things. "It showed that I had it somewhere in me to look that smart, to be that powerful, to be that confident, to walk that way.' Gillian was born in Chicago but raised in London during her early years. Advertisement Most of the time when I show up to work, particularly at the beginning of a job, I think I am going to be fired. Every single job, the first two days are hell. Then the family moved back to the US when she was 11 and she later became a rebellious teenager. She went through a lesbian phase, was arrested and dabbled in punk — getting into what she called 'dangerous things'. By the time she was 14 she was in therapy. Ten years later, while living on benefits in Michigan, she landed the X-Files job — and found overnight global fame. But Gillian admits she still struggles to conform. She told the We Can Do Hard Things podcast: 'I always have been a bit of an outsider. I didn't really make a lot of friends in high school. Advertisement 'My hair was always not unlike it is right now — ratty and not curled. 'Then I started wearing oversized thrift clothes, cinching it with a belt, pointy black boots with buckles, and I started to shave my head and have a Mohawk. Also, by then I'd had a lesbian relationship that they all knew about and teased me about. 'I was kind of on the outside. Then true to form, on graduation night, I was actually arrested, because I tried to break into the high school with my then boyfriend to glue the locks shut.' 8 Gillian has been in a long-term relationship with The Crown writer Peter Morgan Credit: Getty Advertisement 8 Gillian's daughter Piper is one of her three children, she also has two teenage boys Credit: Getty 'I started panicking' Gillian, who has been married twice, currently lives in London where she has been in a long-term relationship with The Crown writer Peter Morgan. Mum to daughter Piper, 30, and sons Oscar, 18, and 16-year-old Felix, she juggles acting with running the soft drinks company she founded with Peter's son, Robin. And despite being at the top of her game for more than 30 years, she admits she still feels insecure at times. Advertisement On playing Margaret Thatcher in 2020, she said: 'It was daunting. From the moment I said yes, I started panicking. "She is a big deal in the UK. And she's a very divisive character and however people feel about her, there's no middle ground — they either absolutely hate her or they love her. "So I knew people felt very strongly, and obviously I wanted to do a good job. So I felt quite a lot of pressure.' She added: 'Most of the time when I show up to work, particularly at the beginning of a job, I think I am going to be fired. Advertisement 'Every single job, the first two days are hell. Literally I think that I'm going to be fired and that the producers are huddling around the monitor. I'm literally going, 'Oh my God, what have I done?' 'And so the point is that I can do that and act as if I am this confident person, despite having panic attacks. 'If I can do those things, then as far as I'm concerned, anybody can.' 8 Gillian says she was profoundly affected by The Salt Path story and was excited to film the movie Credit: Kevin Baker/Black Bear
Scottish Sun
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
We walked 630 miles & lived in a tent after losing our home – now our life has been made into film with Gillian Anderson
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) WHEN a dog knocked Ray Winn's last nine pounds from her hands, she desperately scrabbled down a drain trying to salvage the dropped coins. But rather than helping her, the pet's female owner poked Ray and grumbled, 'We don't have drunken tramps like you here. Get up.' 6 New movie The Salt Path starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs is based on an incredible true story Credit: Kevin Baker/Black Bear 6 Ray Winn and her husband Moth decided to wild camp as they walked 630 miles along the South West coast of England Credit: Supplied 6 The couple embarked on the journey after becoming homeless Credit: Getty It was the ultimate humiliation for the mum-of-two, who became homeless after a court repossessed the Welsh farm home she lovingly renovated with her husband Moth. The couple, who made their living running holiday accommodation from the property, were left with nothing after an investment turned sour. So with nowhere to go, they decided to wild camp as they walked 630 miles along the South West coast of England, from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset, in 2013. To make matters worse, in the same week they lost their home, Moth was diagnosed with a rare and fatal neurological condition called corticobasal degeneration (CBD), which impaired his movement. read more on movies HELL YEAH DOOM: The Dark Ages review: This cacophony of chaos is Game of the Year material Yet they set out determined to cover a distance which was the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest three times. Miraculously, Moth, 64, who had been given just six years to live at the start of the journey, felt fitter by the end of it and still goes out for walks 12 years on. 'People recoiled' Now, their incredible story of survival has been turned into a movie starring X-Files actress Gillian Anderson as Ray and Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs as her husband. Called The Salt Path, it is adapted from 62-year-old Ray's book of the same title, which sold more than a million copies. Sitting in the far more comfortable surroundings of a central London hotel, Ray says: 'I hadn't really thought about homelessness until we came to the idea of walking that path. 'We did start out by being quite honest and saying, 'We've lost our house and we've got nowhere to go, so we're just walking'. Inside Gillian Anderson's 'Pleasure Empire' 'And people actually physically recoiled. It was shocking because, just a few weeks earlier, I'd been living an ordinary, standard life.' Recalling the woman who called her a 'tramp' in a seaside town along the way, Ray says: 'For a moment I didn't know who she was talking to. "Then I realised it was me. 'Just those few weeks earlier, she was the sort of person I might have been welcoming into our holiday accommodation, but now she had a completely different view of me.' Ray and Moth's story is one of sticking together through thick and thin. The couple, originally from the West Midlands, met in a college canteen when she was 18 and he was 20. They had two children, Tom and Rowan, and bought an old farm in Wales, which they spent 20 years doing up. Part of the property was turned into holiday lets, which became the pair's main income. But the decision to invest in a friend's company left them with nothing. After a three-year court battle, a judge decided all the couple's worldly goods, including their home, should be repossessed in order to help pay debts. All their savings had been spent on lawyers' fees and they had just £115 left in the bank. Then, in a cruel twist, a couple of days later Moth received a diagnosis for the mysterious pain he'd been suffering. Doctors revealed he had CBD, which normally carries a life expectancy of six to nine years. He had already been ill for six. Ray recalls: 'We could not take it in, because someone who had lived such a physical, active, vital life to be told that he had this dreadful degenerative illness, was almost impossible to take on board, that it could happen to him, to us. When we received Moth's diagnosis, it was as if the future melted away as well Ray "I had been with him my whole adult life. I had never for one second envisioned life without him.' The couple asked the council for accommodation, but claim they were told Moth's condition did not merit it. Ray explains: 'We couldn't prove that he would die in 12 months, so there was no accommodation available.' The couple almost lost hope. Ray says: 'It felt as if life had just ended, as if everything had been wiped out from beneath us. "And that was simply losing the house. 'When we received Moth's diagnosis, it was as if the future melted away as well.' Fortunately, their children had already left home, so they only had each other to worry about. 6 Gillian and Jason onscreen as the couple Credit: Kevin Baker/Black Bear And as the bailiffs rapped on the door, Ray spotted among their boxes of belongings a book called 500 Mile Walkies, about a man who completed the South West Coast Path. She suggested they attempt the same adventure. However, the pair quickly realised that living in a tent out of despair rather than choice made them social lepers. And they faced a struggle to get by on just £40 a week, meaning they had to ration their food carefully and would forage for berries and mushrooms. Their basic meals included dried food such as rice or pasta, with tinned tuna an occasional treat. But Ray longed for 'the basic stuff' rather than material things. She says with a smile: 'The thing I missed the very, very most was a flushing toilet.' 'Future to embrace' Often, the couple had to relieve themselves in the bushes, and showers were a rare luxury. Wild camping is not legal in most of England and Wales, but as they could not afford official camp sites, they had to put up with locals complaining about the places where they pitched up. It also meant Ray could appear unkempt, leading to harsh criticism, as she received from the judgmental dog walker. But despite their ups and downs, the lengthy trek showed Ray and Moth that they may have a future to embrace after all, as he grew stronger day by day. Ray says: 'The moment Moth rescued our tent from the tide, we realised how much his health had changed, from not being able to put his coat on without help at the beginning of that walk to just running up the beach with a tent above his head. 'I am coming to understand the power of moving, what it does to our body, and that our bodies are capable of repairing themselves in ways we maybe don't fully understand yet.' Having to lug everything on their backs meant the couple only carried the essentials, such as cooking gear, first aid kit and clothes. Ray says: 'We left behind more or less every material thing that we owned.' But the long journey gradually helped them come to terms with losing their home. Ray says: 'The path didn't wipe it all out, it just made it possible to live with, to carry it more easily. 'As time went by, it was less about the tent, it was actually the path that really became home.' Once winter set in, wild camping became impossible and the couple found a shed to stay in. But they restarted the following summer, completing the full route. 6 The couple now live in Cornwall on a farm after the success of Ray's book Credit: Supplied Afterwards, Moth returned to university to study sustainable horticulture and landscape design and they were able to live off his student loans. Ray had written a diary of the walk for Moth and was persuaded to send it to publishers. It was a big hit in 2018 with many celebrity fans, including Gillian Anderson, who said: 'I bought Ray's audiobook and was profoundly affected by it.' Soon afterwards film-makers soon started knocking. Recalling their reaction at learning Gillian Anderson would play her, Ray said: 'I was quite shocked because she's just so perfect and beautiful and utterly glamorous. 'And I remember going into the house to tell Moth, and I think he misheard me, because he said, 'Ooh, Pamela Anderson'.' Later, watching the film with friends and family meant sitting through a sex scene where Gillian and Jason get very physical in their sleeping bags. Ray said: 'I did have to warn them. I did tell them that they were watching Gillian Anderson, not me, so that was fine.' The couple now live in Cornwall on a farm, having been allowed to stay there by a wealthy fan of The Salt Path book. They continue to do long walks, including a 1,000-mile trek three years ago through Scotland and into England. Now I don't see homeless people, I see a person whose life has taken a turn for the worse Ray Winn Moth's health has deteriorated, but much slower than medics expected. It is unclear how he has managed to defy his bleak prognosis. Ray says: 'These illnesses that come under the umbrella of CBD, they don't receive much funding because they are so rare, and so we understand very little about them.' Readjusting to normal life has not been easy, and Ray would sometimes sleep on the floor at home because it had become so familiar. Her attitude to rough sleeping has also changed, as she came to realise there are so many reasons why people are homeless. Some of the people the Winns met during their coastal journey, living in 'cars, trailers and hidden places', were workers on minimum wages. She says: 'Now I don't see homeless people, I see a person whose life has taken a turn for the worse. 'If there is anything that I hope people take from this film, I would really love it if they walked out of the cinema, and saw someone in a doorway, that they would see them slightly differently, maybe just as an individual, not a difficult statistic.' The Salt Path is in cinemas from Friday. 6 Ray said of Gillian: 'she's just so perfect and beautiful and utterly glamorous' Credit: Getty Unlock even more award-winning articles as The Sun launches brand new membership programme - Sun Club.
