31st August 1997. There can’t be many people who don’t remember exactly where they were when they heard that Diana, Princess of Wales had died. The People’s Princess was an icon in her lifetime, much loved, much admired and much photographed. Her death, at the early age of 36, ensured that she would never be forgotten, and a new publication from Welbeck Publishing, written by broadcaster and Royal Correspondent Nicholas Owen, and with a forward from Sir Trevor McDonald, celebrates her life and legacy. Diana The People’s Princess is a stunning, hardback book that has the reader fascinated from the cover image, a stunning early official photograph by Lord Snowdon.…

Childcare has been a major source of worry for many parents in 2020. As people returned to work after the lockdown, and with furlough schemes ending, the question has been what childcare is available, and more specifically, who will look after our children when we are working, during school holidays, and also during unsociable hours if we happen to work evenings etc. This has become even more of an issue as schools, which often run summer camps, have not done this. (My son’s school being a case in point.) This is what has made Childcare.co.uk so important to many parents. The platform, which has more than 2 million users nationwide and is…

It’s not that children have short attention spans. It’s that, to a child, the world around them has a short interesting span – with only a surface level of knowledge on most things, they don’t know how to engage with their interests in ways that will hold their attention for much longer than a few seconds (or perhaps a minute or two). For parents or guardians cruising towards hour four or five of little hands opening cupboard doors and ransacking the place in search of literally anything new to do, a few pointers on how to keep children entertained at home may be welcome. Let’s take a look. Art and…

In 2020 our gardens and outdoor spaces have been more important than ever. We were in lockdown and our world shrank to the smallest of areas, and this was even more apparent for our kids, who moved from being able to go to school and see their friends, to quite literally being stuck in their homes and gardens. This all made that respite, that one hour per day exercise in the great outdoors, and the time we could spend in our gardens, so much more important. We were lucky to have some really glorious, at times, unseasonable weather that made our gardens a haven. And suddenly, items like scooters and…