‘heartbreak made me a better writer’

Things didn’t quite work out the way Carol Kirkwood expected, but she’s not complaining…

The BBC weather presenter, 63, on getting married in her sixties, retirement plans, and her photo of the King’s nostrils

Our childhood beach was made of the finest sand, the sort you get in an egg-timer. I grew up in Morar, a lovely little village on the northwest coast of Scotland. My parents owned a hotel opposite the

It’s a funny old world

Gloria Hunniford is running a little late for our interview. Not content with filming an episode of Loose Women, she then had a long lunch with friends before squeezing in a dog walk. It wouldn’t be s

Author Carol Kirkwood on the books that changed her life