I AM looking at a screen asking me a tricky maths question and wondering why I am putting myself through this ordeal. When I agreed to help with the world’s largest health databank I never expected it to be like taking the 11+.Read
Sleepless nights and endless coughing used to leave Alex Evans feeling depressed every morning. Here Alex, aged 28, from Stirchley, tells DIANE PARKES how he has turned his life around.Read
Retired export sales executive Alf White cares for his wife Doreen, a former medical practice manager. They are both in their 70s and live in Solihull. Alf tells Diane Parkes how he has found support from a Caring with Confidence course.Read
I HAD my stroke in August 2005. I was Head of Faculty for Science at Solihull Sixth Form College and frequently used to cycle to work. One morning I was cycling as usual when a woman pulled out right in front of me and I went into the side of her car.Read
MUM Fiona Harris has a very good reason for taking part in this year’s Birmingham Mail Fun Run – to help raise cash for Macmillan Cancer Support who helped her through her breast cancer ordeal.Read
TRUDIE Lobban’s daughter Francesca was just ten months old when she had her first seizure – but it was to be nearly three years before her condition was actually diagnosed.Read
At this time of year, stores’ shelves are stacked with a myriad DVDs, books and other aids for getting in shape and healthy for 2010. Here are just a few you might try out:Read
BEING a post-war baby meant Ann Wolf was brought up to believe she should eat everything on her plate – which is why she spent most of her adult life battling with her weight.Read
STUDENT Jessica Ship was in what should have been the final year of her International Baccalaureate course when she suffered what she feared was a heart attack.Read
THOUSANDS of people will make a New Year’s resolution to up their fitness but by the end of January most of them will have already broken the pledge.Read
