Haemin Sunim is a Zen Buddhist teacher, and author of in Love For Imperfect Things (pictured) Should it all get a bit much for you this Christmas, console yourself with the thought that at least you’re not working as a doctor in an NHS maternity ward. Such was the fate for several years of Adam … Read more
YOUNG FICTION By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 2 January 2020 THE KID WHO CAME FROM SPACE by Ross Welford (HarperCollins £6.99) THE KID WHO CAME FROM SPACE by Ross Welford (HarperCollins £6.99) When 12-year-old Tammy goes missing on Christmas Eve, her twin brother … Read more
Clear the mantelpiece! The ‘ultimate’ souvenirs to buy in 12 capital cities revealed, from a Christmas ornament in Washington DC to a Hamleys bear in London In Dublin, researchers say the best souvenir is soap from Sweny’s Pharmacy When in Budapest, tourists should pick up a bottle of Hungarian lavender oil The ultimate souvenir in Berlin is … Read more
A 37-year-old woman in California believed vaping would help her get healthier because it would make it easier for her to quit smoking. She kept it up for more than five years – and then she collapsed, on Christmas Day. Julia Itzen was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, and would remain there for … Read more
POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:33 GMT, 17 January 2020 MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) Back in 1970s Sheffield, teenage pop obsessives Dan and Alison were madly in love. But then Alison … Read more
Boris Johnson has become engaged to girlfriend Carrie Symonds and the couple are expecting their first child, Downing Street announced last night. Mr Johnson put an end to months of speculation in Westminster by declaring that their baby would be born in the ‘early summer’ – and that he would become the first British Prime … Read more
Dear Bel, I am at my wits’ end and do not know how to deal with my husband since his stroke last year. While he denies his minor physical issues are due to the stroke, the real problem lies with his personality. The stroke caused damage to the part of the brain which governs ‘executive … Read more
A company director who mowed down and killed an eight-year-old girl with his car while he was in a state of severe frustration at being held up in gridlocked traffic was jailed for more than three years today. Jon-Paul Caruana, 25, of Worsley, Salford, was said to have been ‘breaking speed barriers’ and was looking … Read more
A Romanian cleaner has denied involvement in a £50 million jewellery and cash raid on heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s home. Maria Mester, 47, and her 29-year-old son Emil-Bogdan Savastru are charged with conspiracy to commit burglary over the heist at Miss Ecclestone’s £70million mansion on ‘Billionaires’ Row’ in Kensington, west London, before Christmas. Miss Ecclestone, the … Read more
Allies of Priti Patel (pictured in London this week) have angrily denied that she has been snubbing Home Office mandarin Sir Philip Rutnam Priti Patel’s allies today angrily denied that she has been snubbing Home Office mandarin Sir Philip Rutnam – saying he failed to turn up for a meeting with the Cabinet minister yesterday. … Read more