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‘It tastes just like the real thing’: Mum’s HEALTHY brownie recipe takes the internet by storm – and you won’t believe what she uses to make it An Australian mother has created a ‘healthy’ bean brownie using a slow cooker The home cook combined seven ingredients including kidney beans and honey She placed the blended … Read more
When I first met Marc Chivers, the man who murdered my mother, I admit I found him charming. Mum’s new boyfriend seemed generous and confident. He was physically unimposing: bespectacled; meagre. I did not for a second consider him threatening. Mum was captivated. She had met him a couple of months earlier while walking her … Read more
I live in the family home and until last September I was caring for my mum, who has Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, at home. She became too ill and had to go into a local care home. The cost is astronomical and I’m currently using my power of attorney to pay for mum’s care … Read more
John and Chrissie Wade: ‘We still feel that we and Mum in particular have been very badly treated by Aviva’ A Devon couple have won a year-long battle with Aviva after it cut off a frail 96-year-old woman’s £100 a month annuity payments. Ellen Wade’s son and daughter-in-law got embroiled in a bizarre misunderstanding over her … Read more
The launch in Belfast of RMS Titanic on May 31, 1911, attracted 100,000 people — around one-third of the city’s population. At the time, she was the largest ship yet built. This I learned on a visit to the spectacular Titanic museum in Belfast, where I joined the new Seabourn Ovation on its cruise around … Read more