For more than 20 years, Katie Hughes puzzled over the cause of her relentless barrage of crippling symptoms. Heart palpitations, sudden weight gain, nausea and depression dogged her life from her late teens to her early 40s. The mystery illness even made her hair fall out. Along the way, doctors blamed her lingering health issues … Read more
Have you ever borrowed a T-shirt from a friend or a family member, sniffed it, and instantly recognised their unique ‘smell’? Yet, if someone alerts you to your personal scent, you struggle to sense anything but the pong of your surroundings. While we might become immune to our own natural smells, we pick up far … Read more
DR ELLIE CANNON: My IBS has got worse… is it something more serious? By Dr Ellie Cannon for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:17 GMT, 1 June 2019 | Updated: 22:17 GMT, 1 June 2019 Q. A few years ago I started having regular stomach upsets and going to the toilet five times a day. … Read more
When it comes to the health of her two daughters, Alice Ross is simply ‘trying to do the right thing’ – much like any loving parent. In her case, that meant not having them vaccinated. When they were babies, she declined the jabs routinely offered to protect youngsters against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, and … Read more
Taste the zest of summer with these quality rosé wines By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 BST, 1 June 2019 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 1 June 2019 Rosé wine is liquid summer. But not all of it has the relaxing holiday vibe. Some is made as an off-cut of red, bleeding … Read more
Ahh… the joy of a six-napkin taco! By Tom Parker Bowles Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 1 June 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 1 June 2019 Araceli’s 16 Commercial Way, Woking Rating: Woking. Landing spot for those pesky Martians in The War Of The Worlds, Delia Smith’s place of birth and … Read more
‘I was never Alfie,’ says Sir Michael Caine, despite having made his name playing the Swinging Sixties lover boy on screen. ‘I was always after girls, but I was a romantic. I was always in love with someone. So I wasn’t like that, I wasn’t after a sh**. It worked out very well.’ Caine looks … Read more
Leonardo: A Life In Drawing is a stunning exhibition, giving an extraordinary vision of one of the greatest minds of history By Philip Hensher for Event Published: 22:01 GMT, 1 June 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 1 June 2019 Leonardo: A Life In Drawing Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace … Read more
DEBORAH ROSS: Classy Keeley can’t save this stilted saga By Deborah Ross for Event magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 1 June 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 1 June 2019 Summer Of Rockets Wednesday, BBC2 Rating: The Virtues Wednesday, Channel 4 Rating: Stephen Poliakoff’s latest drama, Summer Of Rockets, is its own worst enemy. Just when you … Read more
The new Naim Mu-So is BOOMING marvellous By Rob Waugh Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 1 June 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 1 June 2019 Naim Mu-So £1,300, naimaudio.com Rating: Wireless speakers used to be the weedy runts of the hi-fi family. Then Naim’s Mu-So came along. Looking like a metal … Read more
For just over a year, two of the greatest poets in the English language lived within a few miles of one another, in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. They were both bristling with energy. William Wordsworth, aged 27, had once walked 3,000 miles through France and Switzerland. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three years his junior, thought … Read more
It was the largest seaborne invasion in the history of warfare – a battle fought on such an epic scale that it has spawned thousands of books, TV series and Hollywood movies. Although millions of words have been written about the events that unfolded on D-Day, June 6, 1944, almost all have come from the … Read more
So, finally, the Game is over. After eight series, 73 episodes and some 80 hours of some of the best television of all time, Game Of Thrones is at an end. Bran the Broken, the boy crippled in the very first episode, closed the series sitting on the much-coveted Iron Throne. Metaphorically, at least. The … Read more