It’s been several months since I write my last blog post, and in that time I’ve come back to work after maternity leave and started teaching at MMU again. So it’s been a busy time but I feel I’m getting back into a balance with work again. Lat weekend this interview I wrote with Ally was …
After a break from work for almost nine months for maternity leave, I started back at my job at the university last week, the day after the suicide bomb attack at the Manchester Arena. Several of our students had been at the gig and one wrote a brave, articulate and emotional account of the immediate …
Mum Vicky Maley shared her story with me about losing her son Isaac when he was just 10 years old to asthma. Like millions of children in the UK Isaac was diagnosed with asthma when he was four and used his inhaler before playing sport. He’d never had an asthma attack and at his last …
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I’ve been known Susie Green, the CEO of Mermaids, a charity helping children who identify as transgender, for several years after I wrote her daughter Jackie’s story for The Sun. When the charity decided to relauch their website following a huge rise in the number of enquiries they receive I wanted to help, and so …
It was a pleasure to speak to Marie Carr and help her share her incredible story of beating severe postnatal depression in both Take A Break magazine and the Daily Mirror. Marie had IVF in the Czech Republic and found out she was pregnant with twins a few days after her 50th birthday. But severe …
After the Sun on Sunday’s Christmas campaign to raise money for children and their families using hospices over Christmas more than £10,000 was donated, which bought lots of presents for kids across the country. I visited Derian House in Chorley, Lancs to meet children and their parents there as part of the campaign, and this …
It was a pleasure to visit Derian House with Coronation Street actress Tina O’Brien as part of the Sun on Sunday’s Christmas campaign to raise money for children and their families who would be using hospices over the festive period. As well as the fantastic staff we also got to meet two-year-old Tyler, who was …
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