Beth Hale

Grand Designs projects do not typically come in under budget or whizz to completion in record-breaking time.But Zara Findlay and Giuliano Rapoz are not your typical self-building couple...

There is no textbook formula that can teach someone how to approach a terminal cancer diagnosis. If there were, Liz Hatton would surely be hailed as a shining example to all of us.

Surviving the depravity of a serial killer is a badge of curious distinction and one that few hold. Delia Balmer survived. But, she carries scars, outwardly and inwardly, that will never fade.

There was a particular poignancy about the timing of the film crew's arrival in the narrow streets of the medieval Umbrian city of Perugia last week.

Psychedelic tourism is booming, and nowhere more so than in the tranquillity of the Amazonian rainforest.

The video for Wham's Last Christmas - celebrating its 40th anniversary - is a vignette of Eighties nostalgia featuring George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley alongside their old school friends.

In many ways, John Cooper's appearance on the Eighties television show Bullseye was quite unremarkable. But it would not be the last the public would hear of him.

Author Dominic Holland summed up the challenges yesterday, when recalling his own proposal 30 years ago: 'For most blokes, the stress of purchasing an engagement ring is being able to afford it.'

The broad smile and bottle of wine on the table do not speak of a man unduly burdened by the strain of recent events.