There was a time when being unavailable was completely normal. If someone wanted to speak to you, they phoned the house and hoped you were in. If you went out, nobody knew exactly where you were. If you were going away for the weekend, you didn't spend the journey sending updates to everyone you knew. You simply went. For Gen X, that probably sounds less like a historical curiosity and […]

Four people have died in a house fire in Bootle, Merseyside. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service was called to a semi-detached property in Stone Square at 3:38 on Tuesday morning. Chief Fire Officer Nick Searle confirmed the four deaths and said another person was taken to hospital with burns following the intense blaze, which spread rapidly. Six fire engines attended the scene, with eight firefighters entering the house to tackle […]

Few meals inspire quite as much opinion as breakfast. Lunch can be whatever happens to be available, dinner can change completely from one day to the next, but breakfast seems to come with rules. Everybody has a preference, most people have strong opinions about what belongs on the plate, and somewhere along the line we have all decided that our way of doing breakfast is perfectly reasonable while somebody else's […]