Today (9th November) is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall was built in Berlin in 1961 to mark the division of Germany into the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, under Communist rule) and The Federal Republic of Germany (West...

We are heading towards the season of Advent and preparing for Christmas, and as I ponder these times, I look at Advent calendars. These are big business these days. In our society, it seems that anticipation isn't enough: the calendar where you simply open a door and...

On Thursday, our area faced one month's rainfall in one day and there was widespread flooding. All my family was in the affected areas of Sheffield and for many hours I was uncertain what was happening to them. Because they were travelling, it wasn't always possible...