The undead – Cambridge Kate’s story

The undead – Cambridge Kate’s story

This is Kate’s tragic story, she is one of our members of Headway Cambridgeshire, the charity which I support as a trustee and their press officer. It has been featured in The Sunday Times and highlights the incredible difficulties and decisions surrounding...
Hoping David will get the all clear today

Hoping David will get the all clear today

David and I are heading for Great Ormond Street Hospital again today and I am confident he will finally be discharged following a very painful four years of suffering from chronic osteomyelitis. David’s difficulty was that he was not a text book case and it...
The missing – Bryan Dos Santos Gomes

The missing – Bryan Dos Santos Gomes

One year ago, a tiny four-week-old baby, Bryan Dos Santos Gomes, was abducted from his mother’s arms at knifepoint by a woman they had stopped to help and has never been seen since. Bryan, then 28 days old, was abducted on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 2006, after...
How can boxing be called sport?

How can boxing be called sport?

I was dismayed to see boxer Joe Calzaghe win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, with fellow boxer Ricky Hatton coming third. It’s nothing personal, but there is no way that I consider boxing a competitive sport, to me it is barbaric and nothing more than...
A visit to my final resting place

A visit to my final resting place

My father died five years ago and this is the headstone which has been made for him and was finally laid last Friday. It is made from red granite and is adorned with hand carved love hearts and angels. It was chosen by my mother and sister Rosalind, whose own home is...