Opinion

I know everybody’s talking about Bodyguard, the BBC Sunday night show, but I’m afraid I can’t join in with the discussion because I haven’t seen it.

A foodbank is appealing for help with items it is in short supply of to continue its work with people in need.

The community of Wellingborough is being urged to ‘pull together’ to celebrate all their town has to offer in the first festival of art, music and culture.

We are four weeks into a seemingly never ending General Election campaign, one which is only creating excitement among avid players of political bingo.

Now that the warm (er) weather is threatening to show its face, plenty of Britons are rolling up their sleeves to do what they do best - DIY.

Dozens of drivers were caught breaking the speed limit during checks carried out on a housing estate in Wellingborough.

Deciding to have a late spring/early summer blitz, I have had a few areas in my flat painted which has meant having to move almost everything – not easy when space is so restricted.

When I was a young family doctor, long before I became a consultant in palliative medicine, and at a time when practices took their own night calls, I was woken by the telephone at about two in the morning.

So, England have a bad game, Gary Ballance is out, Ian Bell will bat at three, again and Joe Root is up to four. Kevin Pietersen is relaxing on a beach in St Lucia.

Only once in the last 50 years, has England lost an Ashes series, after winning the opening Test.

And so it begins... yes that’s right the Ashes gets under way on Wednesday.

Most of us are embarrassed when people say something nice about us.

As much as I try to avoid discussing religion or politics in any public forum, I find it increasingly difficult not to.

Back In Time For Dinner was so much more than a clever name for a TV programme.

I remember my parents watching Patrick’s Pantry on ITV; the signature tune sticks in my head more than anything else to be honest.

A warm welcome to this month’s column.

All Argentina meant to me was a kind of pilgrimage to the land of Eva Perón – an icon and the most famous person in this country’s history. At first.

I begin this week’s column with what I believe to be the most important two words in the English vocabulary.

It would be easy to lose count of the number of times my mum would say these words to me in varying tones of exasperation as, yet again, I would be “under her feet”.