Give it up for 2016
What are you going to give up this year? Are you going to make a New Year’s Resolution to abstain from something you consider bad for you? Most people make the decision to stop a habit which they kno ...
LIFESTYLE
My year in books
This has been a good year for new books by long established authors, in fact, the publishing phenomenon was the second book by Harper Lee, To Set a Watchman which was the sequel to her To Kill a Mocki ...
Charlotte’s People of the Year Award
I keep a close eye on the personalities who shape our cultural heritage and have sorted my favourite people of the year. The following may not be on the New Year’s Honours list, but I feel they ...
Old age Piccolo
A gran is the proud owner of the world’s oldest and most versatile household appliance – which makes dinner, hoovers, paints and even grinds coffee beans. Mary Waite, 63, and her husband I ...