Jenny Johnston

The words come out quietly, but the distress is clear. 'I never taught them how to swim,' says Genevieve Barnaby-Adetoro, of her three stepdaughters.

What do you wear when you slide into bed with a man for the first time when you've only just met him, know nothing about him - 'not even how he takes his coffee' - yet married him that day?

The conversation was between the two women who knew Simon Cowell best: his mum Julie, and his partner Lauren, the mother of his child.

Nicola Adams is chatting away about her home life, and how it feels to be combining motherhood with dating again, when she casually announces: 'I'm a gold star lesbian.'

The phrasing was strange, the choice of vocabulary downright odd. 'We received your message and understand,' said US breakfast TV anchor Savannah Guthrie on February 6.

As we prepare to salute the 4th of July and celebrate Colorado becoming a state in the great 250/150 dual commemoration, it becomes an easy opportunity to romanticize the Great American West.

Lauren Goodger can't remember much about what was in her head as the paramedics carried her to the ambulance, sirens blaring and blue lights flashing.

A few months after the McCann family returned from Portugal without their beloved Madeleine, Kate McCann took her toddler twins Sean and Amelie to the local pool for swimming lessons.

A few months after the McCann family returned from Portugal without their beloved Madeleine, Kate McCann took her toddler twins Sean and Amelie to the local pool for swimming lessons.

It is now more than two years since 'this incident' sent Jennifer's life into freefall, and over a year since The Mail on Sunday broke her astonishing story, igniting a national debate.