It wasn’t just the Germans who knew Britain and her Allies were preparing to invade France in 1944 in a bid to end the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen. The British public was also aware that plans were being finalised to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation and destroy Hitler’s despotic regime. What …
The handwritten entry in the Edwardian date reminder book simply states for November 1: “1914, saved 50 lives hospital ship Rohilla.” It is, says Dorothy Brownlee, one of the few discernible signs of the pride her grandfather felt in having played a pivotal role in one of the early 20th Century’s most heroic, headline-grabbing sea …
A 75-minute drive from Newcastle up the A1 and then the A697 will take you to Cornhill-on-Tweed in north Northumberland. There’s a roundabout on the outskirts of the village where the A697 and A698 meet. Take the first left and you’ll find yourself driving up Cornhill’s Main Street past the Collingwood Arms Hotel, the shop …
Amanda Suddes is sat in her kitchen clasping a mug depicting Charles M. Schulz’s famous cartoon beagle, Snoopy, alongside the phrase ‘just be happy’. Given the topic under discussion, it’s hard to think of three less appropriate words to sum up her current feelings. She’s chatting about her late mother and father, Mary and Bob …
“You have to have it in your heart to want to do it because it’s not an easy job. You have to love and want to help your elders.” So says 18-year-old Ellie Cable, one of thousands of teenagers across the UK currently studying towards what they hope will be a rewarding career working in …
Ask Caitlin Evans what she believes is the biggest issue currently facing the social care sector, not just in England but across the UK, and her answer is emphatic: a chronic shortage of staff. Low pay, insufficient funding, inadequate training, stress, and a lack of understanding and appreciation amongst many employers and the public of …
“It is often said that you can judge societies on how they treat the least well off and the weakest, and I think we have got to a point where we are doing, very, very badly as a country when we are unable to provide any level of sufficient care to those people who need …
A month before my eldest son was born my father suffered a stroke. It came out of the blue, and left my dad a shadow of the man he had once been. Born in 1922, he had joined the RAF on his 18th birthday in April 1940, spurred on to enlist out of both patriotism, …
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