The news that UK schools were to close as a result of coronavirus initially made me despair. The implications of a long school closure have the potential to be very serious. Although the news was inevitable, I felt sad, worried and a sense of melancholy. After a few hours, I began to think differently about
I dislike glitter. No, like, I really dislike glitter. With two young children, glitter quite often enters this house in various forms and whenever it does, my heart sinks a little.
Asked to introduce himself, Ziauddin Yousafzai says: “Everyone knows me as Malala’s father.” You’d have to have been living somewhere very remote not to know of Malala, but in case you are that person, she is a young woman from Pakistan who survived after being brutally attacked and shot in the head by a Taliban
Winter always puts the National Health Service (NHS) under particular strain. The colder weather can be an issue for older people, more family gatherings over Christmas and New Year means flu has a greater chance to spread and norovirus is more prevalent. To ease the pressure, the NHS has launched a campaign called Help Us
I first spoke to Nigel Clarke a few months ago when TV show The Baby Club was launched. Nigel told me all about the show, which he presents along with Giovanna Fletcher. As he explained, inclusivity was the aim of the show. It was aiming to be inclusive of mums who couldn’t get out of
