‘If she has a problem, she comes to me’: the retired care worker helping to fight local loneliness

Margaret Shiplee sealed her commitment to her Suffolk community by joining a befriending scheme. So we treated her with some flowers When Margaret Shiplee retired from her job as a…

‘I had this strong feeling that my face was disfigured’ – Kitty Wallace, the body dysmorphic sufferer turned campaigner

Her early life was blighted by the condition, until a TV documentary changed everything. Now, she works for the UK’s leading support group Kitty Wallace remembers very clearly the first…

The great subtitles fiasco: Channel 4 must be punished for failing deaf viewers

Television The great subtitles fiasco: Channel 4 must be punished for failing deaf viewers Liam O’ Dell Despite supposedly championing diversity, the broadcaster’s subtitling has been broken for months. Ofcom…