The missing – Ruth Wilson

The missing – Ruth Wilson

Ruth Wilson vanished mysteriously in November 1995 from Betchworth in Surrey.  She was 16 and on the day she disappeared, Ruth didn’t have any lessons in the morning so she stayed at home until 11.30am when she took a taxi into Dorking. At about...
Post Office closures the end of an era

Post Office closures the end of an era

I live in a village with a population of around 2,000 and when I moved here 16 years ago it had three shops and a butchers. Now it has one remaining shop – it is a Spar store with a post office which is well used by our local community – and...
The missing – Estelle Mouzin

The missing – Estelle Mouzin

A blog has been set up so nobody forgets Estelle Mouzin who vanished without trace in January 2003 when she was nine years old. She was returning home from school in Guermantes, France, a village with a population of 1,392, near...
Where have all the sperm donors gone?

Where have all the sperm donors gone?

Did you realise there are just over 200 registered sperm donors in the UK, despite a male population of more than 22 million men? I wrote about this crisis last August after Bourn Hall Clinic turned to a donor bank in Denmark to make up its...