Peter Greste released after serving 13 months in Egyptian jail – while others wait and hope

Peter Greste released after serving 13 months in Egyptian jail – while others wait and hope

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Everyday Resolutions: Love Your Flaws

According to a report published in the Huffington Post last week, 54% of New Year Resolutions are broken within six months. So why are us Brits still setting ourselves up for failure?   Since mid-November I’ve been bombarded by the …

International Day of the Disappeared

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) marked the International Day of the Disappeared in an exhibition held at Blackburn’s Open pop-up arts venue from Saturday August 30 for two days. Members of the British Red Cross’ North West branch collaborated …

Sipping wine on a Thursday afternoon…

It’s 2.53pm and I’m sat at Bolton Market in their newly refurbished food court with a small glass of Rose. I can hear you wincing.
I know, my fellow Boltonians, you are cringing at what I have just so openly divulged.
You might picture me in a dingy boozer surrounded by old men who have been unemployed since their paper boy days, aged 15.
You would, of course, be mistaken.
There has been a wave of renovation here.

Bolton Food and Drink Festival 2014

  With next year being the 10th anniversary, I caught up with some visitors to ask their experience of this year’s Bolton Food and Drink Festival.  

Helping the elderly to find a new lease of life…

 

 

 

Sitting in a small out-of-town coffee house, I’m listening to the conversation of four ladies. They’re discussing their husbands, The Great British Bake Off and their issues with ever-changing technology.

I shouldn’t really be listening, I know, but there is something refreshing about it.

Being your own person is the most important thing to be…

A number of years ago now, someone told me that I shouldn’t do something because I will never make any money out of it.

Bodrum

 

 

 

 

 

 

The magical Greek island of Kos

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of Greece’s Dodecanese islands, Kos is both an area of outstanding beauty and a welcoming, lively destination situated in the Aegean Sea.

If you are reading this and expecting a travel guide that will inform you of the best hotels, restaurants and beaches, I apologise, you will be sadly disappointed.

Kos, from my experience, is a place to be admired, examined and consumed in it’s most natural form. It’s the place once home to the ‘Father of Medicine’, Hippocrates, and that- according the Greek mythology- was visited by Hercules.  The destination was also home to soldiers during the Trojan War, as told by Homer in The Odyssey.