The Scottish and UK governments must urgently do more to help families caring for very sick children deal with soaring energy bills, doctors, charities and campaigners say.
Her creativity lay buried within for over 40 years but, two decades on from her death, the work of artist and writer Mary Barnes remains a unique example of art's power of hope, healing and recovery.
In the space of 13 exhilarating but exhausting months, former BBC Breakfast presenter Louise Minchin travelled round the world taking part in 17 incredibly physical adventures – while somehow also finding time to have a knee operation.
Riding the tidal wave that was the Chick-Lit phenomena, a gaggle of emerging rom-com writers were herded into a studio for a make-over and photo session – among them Lisa Jewell whose newly released novel, Ralph’s Party, was to become the bestselling debut of 1999.