Is 2025 the scariest time to be a girl?

We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t

Youth worker Sophie Sullivan is happy for her 16-year-old daughter to travel alone to Australia, but she won’t let her or her four siblings have their own smartphones. While she admits to being addict

Counsellor Kate Medlin answers your personal, sexual and emotional problems

My preoccupations at 16 were, I think, twofold. Firstly, passing my exams to get to university. I was really, really focused on that. But secondly, it was round about that age that I started to get re

This December marks 15 years since the murder of Joanna Yeates, a 25-year-old landscape architect who lived in Bristol with her boyfriend, Greg Reardon. Joanna was reported missing six days before Chr

It’s been 50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act came into force in the UK, a law touted as ‘ending the battle of the sexes’ by prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status. I