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
Aga Saga
Can a new energy-efficient pellet fuelled range ever live up to the blessed Aga? We cook Christmas dinner on one to find out.
Britain’s most Extraordinary Council House
Once an ordinary house in an ordinary street in Essex, Talliston House has been transformed by its owner John Trevillian into a series of historical locations.
Home Schooling
Across Britain, thousands of children skip school altogether. When the system fails, is home schooling the answer?
The brilliant surgeon who realised too late he had sepsis
The symptoms of sepsis can be mistaken for more benign conditions like flu but undiagnosed it can kill within hours.
Sudden Cardiac Death in the young
The undiagnosed heart condition that kills 600 young people under the age of 35 every year. This grief stricken mother believes everybody under the age of 35 should be tested.
Thalidomide: Call the Midwife
Fifty years’ ago, The Sunday Times played a crucial role in uncovering the Thalidomide scandal. As the story is played out again on Call the Midwife, I met the mothers and their who took it and their children who suffered horrific deformities.
Thalidomide: Spain – The Forgotten Victims
When the thalidomide scandal erupted in 1961, the drug was soon banned. Yet pregnant women in Spain continued taking it until the 1980s — and the authorities refuse to accept responsibility.
Cleaners: a long history of inappropriate relationships..
Why are we too embarrassed to tell cleaners what we want?
The camera doesn’t lie
In Britain, 40% of all sex crimes are against children, and at least 35,000 attempts to access child abuse images are blocked every day. Caroline Scott and Michael Bilton spent six months talking to the men and women fighting to bring the perpetrators to justice and to the young victims they are trying to save
Women who lose custody of their children
Fathers often lose contact with their children after divorce. Now, more and more mothers are going through that same searing experience.
ICU Psychosis Syndrome
Thousands of intensive care patients suffer terrifying hallucinations and PTSD – we are only just beginning to understand why
Young Carers: Crying out to be heard
200,000 children in Britain look after sick or disabled relatives with little support
Dyspraxia: cure or quackery?
A journey through ‘treatments’ for my son’s learning difficulties
Young Carers’ Appeal
How the money was spent
Brain Injury in Children
20,000 Children are brain injured each year, yet only a handful receive specialist rehabilitation
Middle class homelessness
Paula Daly owned her own home and business before losing everything. And she’s not alone. increasing numbers of middle class people are finding themselves among the ranks of ‘hidden homeless’.
West end kids: children in the Spotlight
Hundreds of children take to the stage every night. What is life like for them and are they being pushed too far?
It’s completely heart-breaking to hear your child say ‘I don’t want to live anymore’
Toby is nine years old. Last year he began starving himself. His parents, teachers and Doctors have no idea why. Caroline reports on the rise of anorexia in primary school children.