Comments (0)Allergies – the growing threat
12:36pm Friday 21st November 2008
It has been estimated that one in five people have some form of allergy. Sometimes it can be life-threatening. Health Editor Barry Nelson looks at this growing problem and asks mother-of-five Ruth Campbell how allergies affect her sons’ everyday lives.
Tough love
12:26pm Friday 21st November 2008
Angelina Jolie almost turned down her latest film role because the subject – the kidnapping of a child and a woman’s betrayal – was too painful for her as a mother. But, as she tells Steve Pratt, she became fascinated by the story.
Christmas crackers
12:45pm Friday 21st November 2008
It’s time to start casting around for Christmas presents. Here are some recommendations...
Of polar bears and princes
12:30pm Friday 21st November 2008
I MET Jonathon Porritt, one of the country’s leading environmentalists, this week.
Slow move to road safety
12:27pm Friday 21st November 2008
BRITAIN already has some of the safest roads in the world. The number of people killed or injured on our roads has fallen dramatically in the past 20 years.
'You have to be strong for them'
12:16pm Thursday 20th November 2008
Last week 13-year-old Hannah Jones chose the right to die after refusing a heart transplant. Ruth Campbell talks to the mother of Josie Grove, who died last year after refusing any more treatment for leukaemia, and hears why she supports the teenager’s decision.
What goes around...
12:29pm Thursday 20th November 2008
The show must go on, and it does. At the annual lunch of the Showmen's Guild, the column hitches a ride.
Blackberry days forever
12:33pm Thursday 20th November 2008
I COULD just about make out my name on the front of the old, faded exercise book when I was clearing out a cupboard for my mother back in Ireland. It was my old school news diary, from when I was seven. I couldn’t think why she had kept it.
Kicked out - not bailed out
12:18pm Thursday 20th November 2008
GRIM figures due out tomorrow will lay bare the full scale of the home repossessions crisis – and expose the full poverty of the Government’s limp response.
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