Opinion

Since my school days, I have always had my mother’s words of advice ringing in my ears whenever I get dressed in the morning and always make sure that I have decent underwear on before I skip off on my merry way to the Promised Land of the school run and the office.

What sort of madness is this, when references to a letter box and bank robbers is threatening to tear the Conservative Party apart, limb from limb?

Water is odourless, colourless and tasteless. But that has not stopped brands from working to convince us that their water has special properties to justify a premium price.

Nobody does sulky, bored indifference quite like teenage girls.

“Age isn’t a thing,” said the otherwise charming young chap who sold me a loaf of bread and a ready meal the other evening.

Why so timid, Theresa?

It is often said that prevention is the best cure. But if you are in the prevention business, it can be a pretty thankless task.

Life can be messy, can’t it. You think you’ve got things sorted – the kids are all grown and off to uni, the husband’s business is doing well, you’re ready to go back to work – and then the sky falls in on you.

Our antiques expert, Allan Blackburn, takes a look at some collectables from Royal Doulton

Local historian Keith Johnson takes a look a thief targeting high street shops

We live in an age of rage – a period in time when everybody is really angry.

If you want to reconnect with your family, take them on holiday to an isolated villa on a volcanic rock in the middle of the Atlantic with wi-fi that’s intermittent at best.

Britain’s political leaders can look forward to a minimum of rest as the holiday season descends on Westminster.

One of the ways the world’s most successful brands stay on top is not through innovation, but through repetition.

THIS weekend marks the 50th anniversary of “proper” TV in Yorkshire, by which I mean its birth as a self-contained region.

So the prodigal daughter has returned – back in one piece after three weeks around Europe with her friends, with no one to tell her what to do or when to do it.