Comfort in retirement
Pensioners need an income of around £15,000 a year to live their ideal retirement, a study revealed yesterday. Researchers found the average retiree intends to go on three holidays a year, one of them ...
LIFESTYLE
It’s on the house!
A pensioner has spent £20,000 building a pub – in the cupboard under his stairs. All drinks are on the house in the hallway belonging to Mick Waite, 66, who has spent the last three years creati ...
Rosen bears all
Author and poet Michael Rosen chats to LAURA HEADS about his most famous book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt as it turns 25 years old this summer. When you say the name Michael Rosen most parents will imm ...
Radio one man show
A local BBC version of The Archers which is scripted and voiced by just one man has come to an end after 40 years on the airwaves. Gerry Hughes, 58, started his one-man soap opera Acrebury for hospita ...