121’s, performance reviews or just a standard meeting. How do you get the most out of your interactions at work? In this article professional life consultant Oliver Martin gives some advice on how to draw out all the necessary dry facts of a meeting yet make it feel like a seamless interaction. SERIA OSCAR CALLING ALL UNITS It was called a G5. A routine call out for any uniformed police officer. Perhaps one every other set of shifts. The call...

When Lois Chepner started school her mum was upset that she would not receive a school meal - especially as she hadn't even given her a packed lunch

With Autumn in full effect and winter around the corner, if you haven't done so already, it's high time to begin preparing your house for more of bitter mornings and icy cold nights that lay ahead. Similarly to a car, a house needs an annual routine tune up: For example, chimneys need to be swept, heating systems have to be maintained and windows need to be caulked. However, if you neglect the chores that need to be done, you might...

Councillor Peter Bulman represents the Park ward of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in the Royal Kent town, but lives a three-hour drive away in Holt, on the north Norfolk coast.

John Simpson has questioned what Britain has become following a shocking investigation that revealed there has been a soaring number of homeless deaths in the UK over the last 12 months. The journalist and author took to social media to lament “deeply shameful” statistics that show at least 449 homeless people died over the last year. That is almost double the number of people who died between 2013 and 2017. The figures produced by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ)...

Philip, from Hertfordshire, lost his wife to early-onset frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – a relatively rare form of dementia that commonly affects younger people. She was diagnosed at the age of 53, and passed away five years later in 2016. The diagnosis followed five years of anguish for the family, as her symptoms first began to manifest themselves in her late 40s, when her twin sons were just 13. This is their story... Many people think of dementia as a condition that affects the elderly...

I have had Crohn's almost my whole life, I was diagnosed at 4 after having a fistula operation. Being ill has been normal to me, as I have never known any different, but this is what has led to me being who I am today. I always did everything within my power to do what I wanted regardless of how hard it was or how ill I felt. For example, when not bedridden and going through phases of being well enough...

Antonia Mitchell Glynn, 36, has spoken about her baby loss after the still birth of daughter Shoshana (Shosh) in 2015 while the couple were living in Australia. They moved back home to the UK that same year, and went on to have a son, Gabriel, in 2016. Her husband Simon Glynn, 37, tells his story… How did friends and family react to your baby loss? From a personal perspective, we were quite open from the start; we wanted to talk...

By Geo Craig  After finally being appointed manager of Chelsea FC on 14 July,  taking over from Antonio Conte, eyebrows were raised at how late the London club had left it to appoint Maurizio Sarri. Promising an attractive, free-flowing style of football, fans were optimistic yet left wondering how long it would take for him to impose his ‘Sarri-ball’ style of football on a side so accustomed to the more traditional footballing styles of previous managers.   With an unbeaten...