Why we should send our teens towork!

THERE’S been a complaint,” Mr Busby says when, only two days into my new job, he calls me into his office. I’m still in my ill-fitting Santa outfit and my fake beard has brought my face out in an itch

As my daughter Emma, then two, happily played with her new doll’s house, I snapped a photo and smiled. ‘It was all worth it,’ I said to my husband Mark, then 45, as he yawned and rubbed his eyes. It w

LITERALLY no jobs come in over the Christmas period,” Jenna said. Lola Everett looked into her sister’s face, which was like her own but six years younger. “But is that true?” she asked. Jenna had a h

After her first dumpster dive, Amy was hooked. Then she set herself a festive mission…

Like most mums at this time of year, as I add up my Christmas shopping list and what I’ve spent so far, I feel that familiar anxiety. It’s no lie that we are all feeling the pinch at the moment as pri

Many kids come from council estates, but not many came from a council estate in Camden Town, when Britpop was at its peak. It was the ’90s, Oasis were huge and Noel Gallagher would go to the boozer wi