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How to get affordable food to the high numbers in need during an unabating cost of living crisis? An ice-cream van is one ingenious solution. My piece on this innovative project and the incredible woman behind it in Guardian G2. Feeding Britain Feeding Liverpool

I visited a hospice and saw the difference excellent end of life care makes to the quality of patients’ final days, even extending lives. The CEO then broke down as he told me cuts were imminent. My piece in the The Mirror today highlights the national crisis Hospice UK

The UK hospice sector is facing a £77m deficit in 2023 - 2024. We're calling for an urgent review of hospice funding to keep vital services running. MPs will debate this critical issue in Westminster tonight. hospiceuk.org/latest-from-ho…

Masks, pseudonyms, metallic pineapples mistaken for bombs - this eccentric but completely inspiring gang of young women saved some beautiful sites for National Trust. For something completely different… my story of ‘Ferguson’s Gang’ told The Guardian amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Nice article on the wonderfully wacky, feminist supporters of the National Trust, Ferguson's Gang here: tinyurl.com/5h5ctvxb I talked about them briefly in my Octavia Hill lecture tinyurl.com/tj5yhpwy

Some words from me in The Daily Telegraph on the forgotten ‘Flying Nightingales’, the first serving British women to fly into war. Incredible women.Their orders were to stay with the wounded - they weren’t allowed a parachute! telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/1… Thanks to Florence Nightingale Museum 💙

Such an uplifting story on the front of the The Mirror today. The twin of Britain's youngest ever organ donor cradles his baby sister, 10 years after brother Teddy died. Such a moving story by Emily Retter with pictures by Rowan Griffiths mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p…

Begonias, runner beans, loss, wellbeing, hope…resurrection! There wasn’t much Archie and I didn’t cover in his secret garden. Next door to the #chelseaflowershow the Royal Hospital Chelsea pensioners are doing some pretty special gardening, too telegraph.co.uk/gardening/chel… #rhschelsea The RHS

“Afghan women and girls are living under gender apartheid — but they are fighting back. That's why Malala Fund is supporting orgs working to keep girls learning in Afghanistan with $1.5M in new funding.” Malala Yousafzai

Much like death, we don’t tend to talk about house clearance. Too final, too sad; all of life’s ’stuff’ - where does it go? It was fascinating, and v moving, to shadow a business who clears for a living. We talked hoarding, family feuds, hidden Picassos - and serious recycling

I wrote about cowboys and, as it turned out, cannibals for The Mirror Many thanks to historian Katie Hickman and her fascinating book Brave Hearted (documenting the voices of female pioneers) for her help with this. mirror.co.uk/features/topic…

A fascinating behind the scenes read before you watch #Paddington In #Peru this weekend - how do you create a Home For Retired Bears amid rainforest in Hertfordshire? (Get planning permission and 50,000 plants…) mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-… Thanks to StudiocanalUK Paddington !

When I first interviewed Linda I didn’t expect her to be so funny. She was hilarious. Sharp and frank,even at the most difficult times. I worked with her regularly when she became an The Mirror columnist and it was a privilege to write about her here mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-…

Some excerpts from Linda’s The Mirror columns. Always funny - even when she’d landed herself a black eye after a fall (she held a pack of frozen bacon on it) My personal favourite: the revelation ‘I have Angela Rippon’s eyebrows’. mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-… #lindanolan #thenolans

A beautifully upbeat response to a devastating disease on this grey January day. Helen fears she too will develop Alzheimer’s after watching her father suffer terribly. Her reaction was to try and take some control. Read in The Daily Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/christmas/2025… Alzheimer's Research UK

He used betting slips for bookmarks in his secret stash of art books - Eric Tucker was both a labourer and skilled artist, but so few knew. Fantastic to tell his story in The Guardian. His nephew Joe’s book The Secret Painter is published by Canongate (has left) theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

The government aims for clean power in 2030, yet many residents in this beautiful West Sussex village are still fighting the Planning Inspectorate’s support for exploratory oil extraction there. Out of step? telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/2…

High funeral costs drove these families to #crowdfund - more are doing this than ever. One widower with two little girls spoke of the shame he felt, but it was only generosity on GoFundMe which allowed him to give his wife the burial she had asked for. telegraph.co.uk/family/relatio…

A long, moving, funny, sad, sparkly day. Some final words from me for #LindaNolan for her favourite The Mirror mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-…

Eye-opening commission from The Daily Telegraph - are #GenZ increasingly aiming to marry for money? Not just high salaries but family money; inheritance Jane Austen-style. Some admirably honest interviewees, interesting fallout from high cost of living. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/1…