by Ellee Seymour | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog
I have been researching my next book which will have a WW2 background and this led me to meet Vivien Hawes, whose father George Convine was farm manager at Apes Hall, Littleport, Cambridgeshire when double agent Eddie Chapman turned up out of the blue in the middle of...
by Ellee Seymour | Nov 27, 2015 | Blog
Sorting through a box of papers recetly, “maths genius” Lionel March stumbled across a hidden treasure – a three page letter from Alan Turing written to him when he was a schoolboy. Lionel had created a new form of algebra which so impressed...
by Ellee Seymour | Aug 20, 2015 | Blog
Angelina Jolie is the woman who can be credited for single-handedly doing more to raise awareness about ovarian cancer than anyone else; it never made national news headlines until she shared her personal experiences. As a carrier of a faulty version of BRCA1 gene,...
by Ellee Seymour | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog
I was saddened to read that my former Cambridge News colleague Michael Deaves has died. When I first started at the News, Michael appeared rather a daunting and aloof figure, he was the paper’s university correspondent. His sister sums him up nicely by saying:...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 18, 2015 | Blog
I never imagined ten years ago when I first met the gorgeous Sandra Howard during my role as the Conservative Party’s Eastern Region Press Officer during the 2005 general election when her husband Micheal was the Tory party leader that I would one day be sharing...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 8, 2015 | Blog
Where are the world’s best osteomyelitis experts? I ask this because my son David has suffered from chronic osteomyelitis in his left mandible, his jaw, for more than 11 years. It all started from an abscess in the root of a tooth, and has plagued him for half...
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