Purple reign

Merrie couldn’t find her husband anywhere. The day before Christmas Eve was always busy and at 9.30am she’d expect to find him in the warehouse, checking on packing and loading and last-minute orders.

ISOBEL could tell her six-year-old pupil Angela hadn’t been practising. Having clomped her way through her scales, she was stumbling painfully through her pieces. Isobel tried to think of some encoura

Made in Yorkshire, loved by the world. From page to screen, All Creatures Great & Small has a huge following. Here’s a look at life behind the scenes with the people who make up ‘the Herriot family’

As we sat at a well-worn wooden kitchen table in the leafy Moseley suburb of Birmingham, Judith Yates pointed at a spreadsheet on her MacBook. Each row told a clear story, painstakingly collected by t

This precious metal is said to help reduce skin ageing thanks to its antioxidant properties. When used in cosmetics, gold is usually in colloidal form (a gold solution in water) or used as fine partic

Amy hastily shoved her feet into her Dr Martens boots, wondering if accosting intruders was in the job description for a lady’s companion. Whether it was or not, she felt compelled to find out who the