Q: What makes normally truthful parents start lying through their teeth? A: Meeting secondary schools' admissions criteria. Schools in Brighton and Hove are the first in the country to this year use a lottery system to allocate places for over subscribed schools....

I'm naturally delighted to know that Prince Harry is home safely after fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. But my thoughts are with the five innocent British men who have been held captive in Iraq for nine months in the most terrifying circumstances. While Prince...

I sometimes lie in bed and think how dull my life would be if I had never started writing my blog, meeting so many interesting people, making friends with virtual strangers (not as sad as it sounds), receiving great invitations and now looking forward to exciting new...

Should we worry about Prince Harry having some action in Afghanistan and firing at the Taliban? After all, he didn't sign up to sit behind a desk all day. My only concern is that his presence could attract a threat from terrorists and put the lives of his colleagues...

I was reading the latest story yesterday from the Campaign to  Protect Rural England and it reminded me of how I once applied for a job as their regional press officer, but didn't get it. It was a part-time job which paid peanuts. The interview involved writing a...

Am I alone in having slept through last night's earthquake, along with my two sons, while my husband who stayed over in Colchester was woken with an almighty jolt and a shaking bed, and my sister in Wisbech felt the tremors too, her wardrobe door flung open and...

I was really surprised when I read the findings of a Facebook study conducted by the RAC Foundation on how almost half of Britain's morotists txt + drv at the same time. I've written the results in a press release for them which is published today and realise that I...

There are some confusing headlines in today's papers which will send the manufacturers of Prozac and other antidepressants in a spin. A clinical trial has concluded that placebos worked as effectively as anti-depressants. Researchers found that the drugs had no more...