Grey, dark November afternoons, raw and bleak, are made for a trip to Taggs Island for a splash around the creeks and reedbeds, so that's what I did today, and it was pretty good.... Read

Not a headline you're likely to ever read in the Daily Mail but I do think the BBC is due some praise this week.... Read

DEMOTIVATED, depressed and decidedly down? Join the club.... Read

I hope many of you who use our websites have been finding their way onto the two live blogs we are running at the moment, on the world economic crisis and on the Rhys Jones trial.... Read

IT'S a depressing sight watching the rising tide of pubs closing as the credit crunch bites.... Read

Technicians in New Zealand have begun to thaw a rare colossal squid specimen.... Read

EARL Brooks is Portland’s man of the year, a successful businessman with a beautiful wife and a daughter.... Read

WHAT’S the most important attribute for people aspiring to become politicians? A passion to do good, a devotion to political ideals, a quest to serve the electorate? Not even close.... Read