As summer gets into full swing, many Brits are enjoying the hobby of visiting local garden centres and then spending a pleasant few hours arranging newly bought bedding plants around their gardens or sorting hanging baskets. Over the next few weeks these gardeners will carefully tend their plants by watering, weeding etc., hoping to enjoy them when they bloom and...

During this week, many businesses and individuals in North Leeds found their internet cut off. Someone doing works on the ring road had broken nine of Virgin Media’s cables in the road, causing widespread disruption. This wasn’t just a local problem for some businesses: people working in other locations (e.g. offices in Manchester) were instantly cut-off from all files and...

You may not have noticed (the date did not receive much media publicity) but last Thursday, the 18th May, was Ascension Day. Forty days after Resurrection Sunday, Ascension Day is always on a Thursday and, in the Christian calendar, commemorates the day when the resurrected Jesus ascended back into heaven. According to the biblical accounts in Luke 24:50-52 and Acts...

This week, a news article announced that “People in the UK lost £1.2 billion to fraud in 2022, the equivalent of £2,300 every minute, according to bank industry group UK Finance” (www.bbc.co.uk/news/). Statistics show that fraud is now the most common crime in the UK, with one in fifteen people falling victim. How sad it is that just answering the...