A son’s painful pilgrimage

Watching the band up on stage, I felt so proud. ‘That’s my dad,’ I boasted to my friends as he drummed along to rock music. Aged 10, I loved going to his gigs. I’d tag along to rehearsals and knew all

This week’s crime story...

Me and my boy have a special reason to celebrate

My own mum despised me from the moment I was born

I’d grown up wondering why I looked so different from my family. But it took 35 years to discover the truth.

Musical instruments have power, simply as things. They speak. They generate emotion. They tell stories about life, death, happiness and sadness – and about the past, which they can resurrect with curi