Dr Rebecca Tidy

Porthmeor Beach is a vast sweep of golden sand, tucked beneath the Tate and edged by sloping Cornish cliffs. One weekday last August, I perched there with a cold kombucha and a pot of olives, mesmerised as the sea glowed a vivid turquoise in the sun.

On the last day of the summer holidays, instead of stretching out on Porthmeor Beach while my seven-year-old was at art school, I was driving two-and-a-half hours from St Ives to Plymouth for a police interview over four polite tweets.

With a glass of champagne in hand and the turquoise River Fal gleaming in front of me, I felt smug. It was October 2017, and my fiancé and I were celebrating the acceptance of our £450,000 offer on a cottage just outside the seaside village of St Mawes.

COLEEN Rooney claimed that being married to Wayne has at times made her feel "like a single parent." As a solo mum to Mabel, seven, I was gobsmacked to read the 38-year-old mum-of-four reveal life's like a constant "WWE wrestling match" with her boys and that she was often left "juggling" her home alone whilst Wayne was away playing football.

Kelly Brook recently revealed that her friends ditched her once they became mothers, leaving her feeling abandoned as they went onto live very different lifestyles. But my story is the reverse. I made the decision to ditch my childless friends soon after I became pregnant. Though it wasn’t easy, I have absolutely no regrets.

By claiming that buy-to-let is an easy option, Sir Keir is once again showing that he’s dangerously out of touch with people like me from working class backgrounds.

I sat on the balcony of the St Mawes Hotel with a glass of champagne and admired the bright turquoise of the River Fal. It was a sunny lunchtime in October 2017 and my then-fiancé and I were celebrating that our offer of £450,000 on a cottage just outside the village had been accepted.

I spent 14 years in a relationship with the kind of man who wrote "devoted husband" on his Twitter bio. Everyone said this guy adored and cherished me. He even waited at home in London, posting lovesick Facebook statuses, while I traveled the world in my early 20s.

I’ve not been convicted of a single violent offence since. Literacy needs to be prioritised in the daily prison regime.

I sat on a dapple grey pony named Salty and excitedly watched the lively gathering of people in smart tweed hunting jackets, beige jodhpurs and polished black boots. I was 13 at the time and it was a crisp morning in December 2000, where we were joining in the annual Boxing Day hunt on the Goss Moor in Cornwall, which was one of the highlights of the rural equestrian calendar.

It was horrifically sad to learn of the death of The Wire star Michael K. Williams in Brooklyn, New York last week. The talented actor was found unconscious in his apartment on Monday 6 September 2021. He had previously spoken openly about his struggle with addiction, saying that he used drugs during the third season of the hit TV show.