Spot the girl? How my ten year old self’s football career was thwarted by sexism. And forty years on, how many more doors are open for my five year old daughter to play the beautiful game....

Fortunately, there is one voice that is holding the people who run our country together — Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons – and his voice is pure Lancashire....

Today is the end of an era, after twenty years in Manchester, my old love and close friend Brigitte has left the country... #Love #Friendship ...

When I got my first staffing journalism job at the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph in the summer of 1999, my journalism tutor John Foscolo sent me an article about how people who lived in this part of the country lived longer. Well, I’m nearly half a century in and I’m...

Hello! Here's a little blog on introducing myself and my writing....