Home alone
PATRICIA VINE reports on a huge rise in the ‘singleton’ lifestyle Whatever you want to call it there is a huge rise in the number of people who are living alone. The number of households occupied by j ...
LIFESTYLE
What has happened to the British front garden?
It seems that more and more of us are paving or concreting over the house frontage and this is causing concern for environmentalists. Over the past ten years the number of front gardens with gravel or ...
The crate escape
A miracle moggy is recovering after surviving without food and water for three weeks in a shipping container during a 2,200 mile journey to the UK – from Cyprus. The stowaway cat, who has been n ...
Summer reading
I don’t know about you, but my reading tastes change during the summer months. I prefer something light and amusing; nothing that taxes my brain too much but a paperback (who wants to carry a heavy bo ...