In Memory of Kris Hallenga, founder of CoppaFeel

I heard the sad news today about the death of Kris Hallenga, founder of the innovative breast cancer awareness charity, CoppaFeel, aged 38. Kris changed the landscape around checking our boobs and starting the preventative process young.
We say ‘ta-ra’ to Cilla Black

Cilla Black was just as much as part of my childhood as the Beatles so I was saddened to learn she had died over the weekend at the age of 72. In the 1960s my grandpa Sam Parker worked as a lighting technician at the BBC studios in White City on music programmes like Top […]
Charles Kennedy dies aged 55

Charles Kennedy cut his political teeth as a young man in debating societies. This was the genesis of his natural easy style and gave him the mental agility to deal with rhetoric and banter. It also gave Kennedy his edge – and his humanity. He will be sorely missed by most of us, whatever our […]