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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...
Baggage carousel ads at China’s airports
Former dull, grey baggage carousels at Beijing airport in China are now adorned in colourful advertising as it embraces consumerism. The airport has 15 baggage carousels and traffics 48 million visitors annually. Then it occurred to me that this would be the perfect...
Will movie smoking ban be kiss of box-office death?
There was a time when it was considered cool to smoke in films, but now it is to be censored along the same lines as sex, violence and swearing - suitable only for over 18s in America where it will be R-rated. As the non-smoking film maker Marshall Merskovitz...
The missing – Louis Mackerley
Louis Anthony Mackerley looks a fine young man in the latest picture produced by age progression techniques, an invaluable tool used for missing people searches. Louis hasn't been seen since June 1984 when he was seven after returning home from school in Allentown,...
How green really is Gordon Brown?
I thought I smelt a rat when I heard that Gordon Brown had earmarked Oakington Barracks, close to where I live in Cambridgeshire, as the first of his planned eco-towns. The site is currently used as an Immigration Reception Centre which...
The missing – Philip Cairns
Philip Cairns has been missing for 20 years, but investigations are still ongoing. The 13-year-old vanished while walking back to school in south Dublin in October 1986. Every year, on the anniversary of his disappearance, his family make a fresh appeal for the...
The missing – Daniel Morcombe
This is Daniel Morcombe, who it is feared was abducted and may have been murdered after disappearing 7th December, 2003 while waiting to catch a bus for a shopping trip along the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. It was a few days before his 14th birthday. He...
No more migraines for Kate
A guest post by Kate, CEO of Headway Cambridgeshire, of which I am a trustee. Kate suffered excruciating migraines for many years until she took part in a trial using a well known herb organised by the Migraine Action Association which has transformed...
The Missing – Rui Pedro Mendonça
Every day from today, I am going to write a post about a missing person. I am doing it to remind us that this is a terrifying nightmare that happens to some families. How they continue their tormented lives, I cannot imagine, it must be a living hell. I am doing it...