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“A few months ago I found myself at the Royal Surrey, for 2 different investigations, with appointment times several hours apart. I was there to have a kidney scan at 9am, and an investigative examination at 4.30pm later that same day. Rather than stay at the hospital all day and wait between ...

Joshua gazed down at the weighty gun in his hands and felt a heavy feeling settling in his gut. It looked absurdly disproportionate, held in his spindly, pale fingers. “Girl’s hands”, the other men liked to tease. He walked over to the other side of his bunk and reflected on his damp ...

Prep: 10 mins Cook: 45 mins Difficulty: Easy Serves: 2 Ingredients a drop of rapeseed oil 2 sweet potatoes 1 large avocado juice 1 lime, plus 2 wedges 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped 2 tomatoes, finely chopped ⅓ small pack coriander, leaves roughly chopped 1 small red onion, ...

Freedom! What does it mean to you and me? Have you ever stopped to think about it as you live out each day of your life? Perhaps you feel trapped by your life and circumstances. But relatively speaking we enjoy great freedom in our community today, fought for over the ages by individuals like ...

To continue this month’s theme, Free to choose, a three course menu of your own choosing. We live in a part of the world where we can go to the supermarket or local shop and buy what we want to eat or even have a take away meal. In some parts of the world they don’t have this luxury. Why not ...

European Nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus. When a good mate of mine used to tell his wife he was popping out with me for a ‘Nightjar’ she later revealed she always thought this was code for going down the pub. She was wrong, although her suspicions were no doubt well-founded. In fact we ...