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Glossy mag glamorises binge drinking
Do you know the saying: "Everyone likes a drink, but nobody likes a drunk?" Veronica knows it only too well because as a reformed alcoholic, she is passionate about helping others kick the habit if it is destroying their lives. She was furious with an article in the...
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 12 she...
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 under threat of...
Why must Brown wait another 42 days?
After waiting 13 years for his moment of glory, why must Gordon Brown wait another 42 days before he can become Prime Minister? What is the reason for this delay?
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?
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,...