Life on Mars: The Gene Hunt style cop was all too real in the 1970s
If you thought sexist coppers like DCI Gene Hunt in TV’s Life on Mars were pure fiction, Jean Wigmore experienced [...]
Jack Martindale lay in a coma for 30 days and is a ”little miracle” for being alive
Jack Martindale is a “little miracle” just for being alive, according to the nurses who cared for him for four [...]
I wanted to die from cruel bullying that I suffered at secondary school
Alysha Buttress was really excited about starting secondary school – until someone called her fat. From then on, [...]
Inside the school that’s dedicated to helping children who are victims of bullying
With her pretty, heart-shaped face and braces on her teeth, Tori looks like a typical teenager. Read [...]
Lesbian marriage couple’s agonising split as kids are caught in middle
It seemed the perfect arrangement when lesbian marriage partners Kirsty Cox and Anna Jones decided to start a [...]
‘I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about dying’: Female soldier describes life on the frontline
Lacey Turner stars in army drama Our Girl this Sunday about a soldier in Afghanistan so we asked Sgt Becci Taylor [...]
Survival of the fastest: Why descendants of slaves will take the medals in the London 2012 sprint finals
Olympic champion Michael Johnson says black American and Caribbean sprinters have a 'superior athletic gene'. All [...]
Caravans, cruises and concrete mixers: How the Tesco workers who scooped £18.2 million in the lottery splashed their cash
Caravans, concrete mixers and cruises. How the Tesco workers who scooped £18.2 million, splashed their [...]
Does obesity go hand in hand with trauma? How one man lost 12st in one year, just by talking about his feelings
For years, we’ve been told that being overweight is a failure of willpower. The most likely scenario for people [...]
Could you be friends with your burglar? How two men have struck up an unlikely friendship after one broke in and brutally attacked the other
They greet each other with an affectionate bear hug whenever they meet — a gesture which demonstrates the strong [...]
My feminist academic mum is my biggest fan, says Made in Chelsea star Caggie (…she just wishes the show was a little less shallow)
At first glance, Made In Chelsea star Catherine ‘Caggie’ Dunlop has the perfect profile for the reality TV show [...]
From spoilt British teen to Amish girl: How living with America’s strictest Christian sect changed a party-mad 18 year old
No Facebook, no mobile phone, no make-up and no parties. It sounds like the definition of teenage [...]
The science behind our amazing twins – one black, one white
It’s no longer as rare as it looks... and could spell the end of many debilitating hereditary [...]
In front of judges in an old swimsuit, I knew my beauty contest was my ticket out of poverty
As Angela Chapman nervously walked down the catwalk of her very first beauty pageant, Miss Yorkshire TV, wearing [...]
When the IED exploded I shouted ‘Anyone hurt?’ Then I looked at my legs
When the IED exploded I shouted: 'Anyone hurt?' Then I looked at my legs. Read the original article
Banned Ken Loach charity documentary to be shown after 42 years
A banned Ken Loach film, which exposed charity Save The Children Fund as being bigoted and abusive, is to be shown [...]
Booze destroyed Kiera’s life before she was born – then killed her mum
Kiera Roebuck is seven, but alcohol has already destroyed her life. In fact, it ruined almost every chance she [...]
‘We could have spent our money on castles … but adopting NINE troubled children is so much more fun’
As a hard-working partner in a top-ranking firm of chartered accountants, Jim Clifford earns a six-figure salary, [...]
Child poverty in Britain
In a list of 22 European countries about child poverty, the UK is number 18. Only Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and [...]
The Big C: Has TV broken its last taboo?
Few of us know how we’d react if we were told we had terminal cancer. Would we become heroic or self-obsessed, [...]