Opinion

‘The only things kids wear out faster than shoes is their parents.”

A few years ago, the big new trend on TV was Scandi-noir.

Safe to say, I’m not a runner. I’m not sure anyone is really - I’m thinking some just like pain more than others.

Our antiques expert, Allan Blackburn, takes a look at some marine collectables.

The World Cup kicks off today – five glorious weeks of football, interrupted only by vicious family rows when the England games clash with Love Island.

What is your World Cup memory?

It is fair to say that we are living in a country that feels far from united right now.

Boris Johnson daringly implied President Trump would make a better job than Theresa May and, again by implication, rounded on Chancellor Philip Hammond, whose Treasury he described as being “basically the heart of Remain”.

A couple of years ago, when walking by one of the few remaining phone boxes, I asked my elder son, Oscar, who was six at the time, if he knew what it was. He did not.

On the eve of a World Cup, wherever football lovers gather, conversation turns to their earliest memories of the tournament.

Local historian Keith Johnson uncovers a case of family troubles leading to a double death...

As a priest I wear a uniform most of the time, so when I don’t it can be quite fun.

For inanimate objects, statues have been at the centre of a lot of controversy recently, as The Battle for Britain’s Heroes (Channel 4, Tuesday, 9pm) highlighted. People have even died – in Charlottesville, West Virginia – in violence surrounding protests over statues of controversial figures.

So how are the GCSE exams going?