Month: March 2025
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In the early-1990s my late Mum told me it would ruin my health suing doctors after they failed to spot my ectopic pregnancy and I almost died, so is it worth fighting the system today? I’LL never forget my late Mother’s “words of wisdom” (or rather experience) in the mid-Nineties after NHS doctors missed my…
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My Dad taught me to play the game on family holidays in Scotland I SUSPECT there aren’t many ladies my age who can say they got hooked on playing golf as a teenager in Britain in the Seventies. But I can – and here’s a photo of me, above, resplendent in Bay City Rollers trousers…
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The West Sussex town is planning to Hold the Line against the encroaching sea By Hilary Gavin HANDS UP those of you who don’t know that King Canute once sat on a beach to command that the waves lapping Olde England should “go back!” As a schoolgirl growing up in the Sixties, we’d scoff at…
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Staying with my great-aunts Eurwen and Hetty in the Welsh coal mining village of Ystrad was fun-packed and never grim despite the backdrop of slagheaps IN OUR supposedly civilised society I’m sure the majority of us living in Britain today would agree that “everyone deserves to have a roof over their head”. In fact most…
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Why did my beloved Dad, a lowly RAF groundcrew serviceman, keep a photo of Britain’s wartime leader relaxing in a dressing-gown on a mystery balcony in “a secret box” at our family home? By HILARY GAVIN AS ONE of Britain’s most skilful political orators, our Second World War Prime Minister Winston Churchill is famed for…
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AS Shakespeare once said All the World’s a Stage but not all of us are brave enough to take a leading role in it. I hope you enjoy reading my David vs Goliath tale when I took the Plcs to task in a seemingly futile quest to revive local papers….