She added: “The tree, the lunch was beautiful, but it just took the pressure off all of us not having to worry about doing the dishes or cleaning up.
“My mum couldn’t really do much, but she sat there and she watched everything, and I could just…

She added: “The tree, the lunch was beautiful, but it just took the pressure off all of us not having to worry about doing the dishes or cleaning up.
“My mum couldn’t really do much, but she sat there and she watched everything, and I could just…

Samantha makes sure there is gift-wrapped hand cream in the boxes after she said the constant hand washing during hospital stays left hers “sore and chapped”.
The boxes also contain a message of support about how parents or guardians are using…

One student at Hautlieu in Jersey, Tiago, said: “It’s been a great experience getting everyone together and just bringing the Christmas spirit alive has been wonderful.
“It was really catchy, it was a really catchy song and I thought it was a…

Ross YeatesA Christmas song created by two musicians from Jersey and Guernsey has been performed and recorded at 18 schools across the Channel Islands.
Pianist Adam Reece…

Giles Conlon runs the Banbridge Community Cinema.
He said he has “always had a major passion for cinema”.
In 2024, he set up the non-profit community cinema in his hometown, with the help of Film Hub NI and Newcastle Community Cinema.
Since then,…

The CQC said it found seven breaches of regulations and rated four of the five areas it inspected as inadequate. The other was rated requires improvement.
A relative of one service user complained that training for staff appeared to be…

Speaking of wigs and accessories, while wearing one of Inman’s pantomime dame costumes, Mr Riding explained that the late actor designed his own outfits.
“Some of the costumes he actually made himself as well because he was very, very creative,”…

Mrs Myers said Christmas was “probably one of the hardest times of the year” for people who were grieving.
She said she would spend Christmas “the same way that we did when Dave was here”, while creating new traditions.
She said she would be…

Mr. and Mrs. Brown are traveling from the south of France to England so that Mrs. Brown can attend Christmas at her family home — Thompson Hall. There she will meet her sister’s fiance’. But when Mr. Brown becomes sick and Mrs. Brown is…

A former military armed forces and NHS paramedic who said he once “took health for granted” is celebrating a milestone birthday he feared he would never reach – on Christmas Day.
Andrew Gibson, from Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, was told he had…