Strictly Speaking, I won.. The unforgettable Nancy del Olio on Strictly and why it’s nothing without her.
Lucian Freud: intimate interviews with his models, including his daughter, Annie
Lucian Freud was an obsessive task master and father of 15 – His daughter, Annie and others remember what it was like to sit for him.
Locked-in Syndrome
These victims of locked-in syndrome are unable to move or speak, yet determined to life to the full.
Life After X Factor
What happens after you almost win X factor? And can you make a career out of losing?
Inside the School for Angry Infants
It costs £123,000 a year to send severely traumatised children who have been multiply excluded from primary schools to The Mulberry Bush School in Oxfordshire, where experts help unravel years of abuse and neglect.
Clare Lomas
Life in the Day is always a treat to interview but this one with the fabulous Clare Lomas on getting on with paraplegia is one of my favourites.
Tom’s Story
If you are still dithering about joining the organ donor register, read Dr Mary Black on Tom’s story here. It’s the most moving and informative piece I’ve read read on organ donation.
Sunday Times shoot with Yasmin Le Bon
Yasmin Le Bon… she’s still one of the most beautiful women in the world and unfailingly polite and courteous to everyone.
Fistula: Childbirth aged 12 in Sierra Leone
In many parts of Africa, the most prolific killer of young girls is pregnancy. Those who don’t die in childbirth, suffer appalling damage. I met pregnant twelve-year-old girls facing child birth in a Sierra Leone Slum.
Thalidomide: Born Fighting – thalidomide survivors’ 50-year battle for justice
Fifty years after the Thalidomide scandal broke, thalidomiders talk about their fight for justice and their battle to live normal lives.
Organ Donor Shortage: still unsure whether to carry a donor card?
Read this young couple’s heartbreaking story
Music Scholarships for London’s Poorest Children
Talented children who might otherwise slip through the music education net are being helped to fulfil their potential by mentoring and financial support
Doris Saachi’s minimalist home in Battersea
Art collector Doris Saachi on how to downsize the minimalist way
Stapedectomy
The writer Bella Bathurst was deaf for 16 years before a groundbreaking operation gave her back her hearing.
Organ Donor Shortage: The story that inspired Jean Short, 74, to donate her kidney to a complete stranger
10,000 people in England are waiting for an organ, most of them kidneys. When Jean read my story about a doctor and father with end stage kidney failure, she decided she would donate her own.
Organ Donor Shortage: how this doctor and father was left with a 1 in 10,000 chance of survival
Dr Simon Howell suffers from kidney failure and desperately needs a kidney transplant. He is grimly realistic about his chances of survival.
It’s agony not being able to ‘fix’ my daughter’s depression
A mother’s heart rending account of her daughter’s mental illness
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome
Every week in the UK, 12 apparently fit and healthy young people die suddenly. Hours before his wedding, Jane Davies’ finance Max Lowry, 33, collapsed: although an ambulance arrived within minutes, there was nothing anyone could do to save him.
Organ Donor Shortage: Should we all be on the organ donor register?
Two organ recipients discuss whether we should have an opt in system in England or an opt out as in Wales where organs are routinely harvested.
Sex and Illness
Doctors don’t bring it up and patients are too shy to talk about it. But chronic illness shouldn’t mean the end of your sex life
Who will care for our autistic adults?
A GP and father of an autistic young adult describes his battle for appropriate care for his son.
Male Suicide
Men in Britain aged 20-49 are more likely to die from suicide than any other cause, yet we are still failing to tackle the crisis.
Organ Donor Shortage: A new heart
A new heart saved Taylor Turner aged 6, now his life hangs in the balance again.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Every year, more than 30,000 children in Britain are born, like Alfie, with an inherited genetic disorder.
Whitchurch Weekend
There are thirteen villages called Whitchurch in the UK. Every two years they celebrate.
The War on Japanese Knotweed
The menace that tears through concrete and wrecks relationships between neighbours.
Va Va Vroom: Inside the most expensive garage in the world
This £24m pad in Mayfair once housed 1920s sports cars.
The rise and rise of window shutters
Plantation shutters are everywhere and the new key marker that an area is on its way up.
Home Swapping
Once you start thinking of your house as a hot date, you will never again have to suffer the agony of coughing up thousands of pounds to stay in rental properties that turn out to be far less comfortable than your own home.
London’s most luxe royal crescent
Designed by John Nash, flattened during the Blitz and rebuilt as dingy offices, Park Crescent now offers last-word-in-luxe flats for wealthy downsizers
How to find peace at home
he founder of Quiet Mark is on a mission to turn down the noise of modern life. Her tip for achieving serenity? Spend an hour a day listening to the birds
Tom Conti’s Hampstead home
Tom Conti’s much-loved sprawling home in Hampstead was inspired by Lewis Carroll.
Paralysed by paint decisions
Dove grey is the answer to all interior indecision, so why did we decide to paint our front door yellow?
The survivor’s guide to trampolines
My own completely unscientific research has led me to believe that even the most objectionable child is nicer after a brisk bounce. But how safe are trampolines? Not very, according to experts.
What happens when you mix playboy taste with an unlimited budget?
Welcome to Britain’s priciest batchelor pad, designed by Candy and Candy with a budget of over £18M
As my bills soar, I get an ECO edit
Who knew it is your halogen lights that are responsible for whooping up energy bills.
Uber-luxe property developments for billionaires
Developers are cashing in on London’s status as the billionaire capital. I take the first look at the latest uber-luxe offering
The ‘super-yacht’ perfect mansion
No expense was spared in the reconfiguration of this super-luxe mansion on the prestigious Wentworth Estate in Surrey