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Chat, 22 Oct 2026

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ArticleCome on in!

I’m all for girl power and being an inde­pend­ent woman. But when the radi­at­ors need bleed­ing or a shelf needs put­ting up, I envy the ladies out there who have mar­ried a man who knows how to get stuck in. In my mar­riage, we’re as use­less as each...

Come on in!

ArticleBirth­day from hell: A cake, cuddles then he came at me with a knife

Strok­ing my hair, as we lay in bed, my new boy­friend smiled. ‘You’re beau­ti­ful,’ Con­nor, then 25, gushed. It was Octo­ber 2025 and, weeks earlier, he’d added me on Face­book. I’d nervously agreed to meet up near our homes in St Den­nis, Corn­wall.

Birth­day from hell: A cake, cuddles then he came at me with a knife

ArticleLife or death dilemma: Kid­napped and forced to rob a bank

Curled up on the sofa, I smiled as my daugh­ter, Breea, then 7, played on her Game Boy. It was Novem­ber 2000, and I worked as a bank man­ager in San Diego, Cali­for­nia. But as a single mum, noth­ing beat cud­dling my girl at the end of a long...

Life or death dilemma: Kid­napped and forced to rob a bank

ArticleNo womb so a stranger made me a mummy

Look­ing around at my smil­ing, laugh­ing fam­ily sit­ting around our din­ing table, I felt a famil­iar long­ing. It was Decem­ber 2019, and from the out­side, life was per­fect. I had a lov­ing hus­band, Kris, then 35, who enjoyed all the same things...

No womb so a stranger made me a mummy