Bring me sunshine – fashion for dazzling summer days

An upbeat palette for dazzling summer days Mix and clash bikini tops with casual bottoms – just make sure the tones match. Bikini top, £91, Seafolly, beachcafe.com. Trousers, £360, Sea NY, matchesfashion.com. Sunglasses, £130, Marc Jacobs, sunglasses-shop.co.uk. Bracelet, £225, alexmonroe.com Luxe PJ-style trousers are your new go-to for comfortable casualwear – as gorgeous with a … Read more

Churchill’s secretaries were shouted at, worked 20-hour days and had to take dictation up ladders

BOOK OF THE WEEK WORKING WITH WINSTON  by Cita Stelzer (Head of Zeus £20, 400 pp)   Fetch me klop!’ That was Winston Churchill, barking instructions to his quaking new secretary Kathleen Hill in 1937, on her first evening working for him. ‘Klop’ was Churchill’s private onomatopoeic word for his hole-puncher. But Kathleen had no idea … Read more

From lambing in Cornwall to broomstick lessons at Hogwarts, 10 cracking family days out for Easter

1. Heligan Easter lambing What says Easter better than gambolling lambs and fluffy chicks? The Barn at Cornwall’s Lost Gardens Of Heligan allows visitors to meet the baby animals, and you may even be lucky enough to see a lamb being born. Twice daily, until April 22, included with admission. heligan.com What says Easter better … Read more

Five-month-old boy dies days after hopes of a life-saving liver transplant fell through

A five-month-old baby boy has died after his parents put out a plea for a life-saving partial liver transplant from a living donor. Marcus Albers was born in October 2018 with an extremely rare genetic disease that changes the way cells in the body communicate and attacks the liver, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Doctors … Read more

Mother, 29, suffers a stroke just days after giving birth to her second daughter

A mother has told how she suffered a stroke aged just 29 which doctors fear was triggered by giving birth just two weeks before. Lexy Walton-Godfrey, from Blidworth, Nottinghamshire, claims her stroke felt like a huge magnet was pulling her down. Mrs Walton-Godfrey has now credited her husband, Chris, for saving her life, saying without … Read more