The comfortable silence

More singletons arrive in search of a soulmate as First Dates returns… Britain’s most romantic restaurant is reopening its doors for another series, but will its mix of cocktails and fancy food lead t

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Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

AFTER a while, the hole in the bathroom floor became as familiar to Mary as her own reflection in the mirror over the sink. She contacted six tradespersons she found online before one agreed to even c

STARING out of her window at the small garden, Gemma sighed. It was nothing like the large rambling garden she’d had at her old house and there were times when she really missed it. If she were honest

It’s a scorcher of a summer’s day in Belgium’s Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver, a small village between Brussels and Antwerp, but the atmosphere inside its Ursuline Winter Garden is positively chilly, due to t