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Constantin Reliu, aged 63, is officially a dead man walking thanks to his wife. She registered his death in 2013 after he failed to return home to Romania from Turkey, where he had worked...
Say cheers! if you want to make it past 90 – because drinking a couple of glasses of wine a night could well make you live longer. According to interviews with members of The...
As another attempt to prove the Earth is actually flat fails, Dorrie Bridge takes a look at what shape The Flat Earth Society itself is actually in. ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, from California, is a...
I have never been one to ‘do’ exercise, though acknowledging it is a major part of any health programme. As a child I climbed imaginary mountains, up and down the hollows; I teetered along...
I remember in my twenties falling over in my sister-in-law’s kitchen, gently, like a leaf in Autumn. I’d had two shandies! And, no, I wasn’t on antibiotics, wasn’t pregnant, no wayward brother-in-law had spiked...
Writing for Grey Pride I almost inevitably look back to Christmas Past and think of times when we all went to Grandma and Granddad’s for Christmas Dinner. Julie was a portly, rather serious lady...
Allow me to create a picture for you – a picture of the streets of Manchester seen through the eyes of my childhood. My childhood was World War II. Most nights were spent...
A group of women are challenging the government’s booze-bashing message and saying a resounding cheers to having a few drinks. Drinkers’ Voice says it has conducted a poll that reveals eighty per cent of...
I’m looking back at many aspects of life in a small town, a suburb – my village; a typical Northern town where I happen to have been born and spent my entire life....
Theresa May’s manifesto pledges to include the value of people’s property in the means test over the cost of care at home. At the moment, we pay for home care if we have more...
