Is speeling (whoops!) important? And should children be banned from using mobile phones in schools?
We have a love-hate relationship with food – and both extremes of consumption come with a massive health warning.
While David Cameron has come in for a lashing lately about being “out of touch” with real people, he’s certainly on the same wavelength as many of Lou’s Women on one subject – discipline.
Salon owners are tearing their hair out at a proposed new EU edict ordering them not to wear high heels.
We really do have a befuddled approach to alcohol in this country.
Just how much shopping do we all want to do, especially as many of us are having to tighten our belts?
In American restaurants it’s fairly routine to ask for – or even be offered – a doggie bag to take home the left-overs.
Sorry chaps but we girls just don’t like seeing your underwear – at least, not when exposed by trousers strung somewhere down round your knees.
Mum knows best – and many of us will testify to that with flowers and cards on Mother’s Day on March 18.
Well, they certainly deliver what it says on the tin, it seems, and we either love ‘em or hate ‘em.
In the old days it would have been “madam” – but now it’s more likely to be “babe (or round these parts ‘bab’)”, “love”, “duck” or “chick/chuck”, writes Louise Jew.
Back in 1968 Welsh extremists blew up a major water pipeline serving the West Midlands at Hagley, near Stourbridge, in their fight for independence.
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