There is something slightly unusual about being Gen X. We grew up in a world that was largely analogue, became teenagers as technology was beginning to change everything, and entered adulthood just as the internet was starting to reshape everyday life. We remember a time before mobile phones and social media, but we also became adults in the years when computers, CDs, the web and mobile phones began moving from […]

Suffolk Police say there is nothing to indicate any criminality in the disappearance of three-year-old Noah. Images and CCTV footage have been released showing him at the Merriman Close playground shortly before he vanished. Superintendent Tom Pearse confirmed officers are treating it purely as a missing person investigation, adding there is nothing to suggest anything sinister occurred, though police keep an open mind regarding the circumstances. Residents of an Oxfordshire […]

There was a time when a five-pound note felt like proper money. Not "I'll just tap my card and see what happens" money, but money you could actually see, hold and make a plan for. A crisp £5 note in your hand meant you had options. You could go into town, buy something to eat, get a drink, pick up a magazine and still have some change left over. Or […]