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The water babies
9:39am Tuesday 11th March 2008
You would think nervous new parents might be reluctant to throw their precious little bundles in at the deep end.

The days when rhymes ruled
9:52am Tuesday 11th March 2008
Sharon Griffiths bemoans the decline of the autograph book, once a proud possession of girls everywhere

‘I am the mother of a murdered child and I have no rights’
9:26am Tuesday 4th March 2008
When her eldest son was stabbed to death four years ago, Theresa Cave thought her world had fallen apart.

Toy story
9:31am Tuesday 26th February 2008
Sharon Griffiths meets a woman whose tireless efforts have provided hundreds of disabled children and adults with educational toys

In Jamie’s footsteps
9:17am Tuesday 19th February 2008
Jamie Oliver isn't the only cook who believes in real food. Friends Sarah Hutchcraft and Deborah Batley are just as passionate about it and so are their growing queues of customers. Sharon Griffiths reports SARAH Hutchcraft and Deborah Batley are so passionate about proper food that they make Jamie Oliver seem positively feeble and half-hearted.

How to be happy
9:25am Tuesday 12th February 2008
Happiness is difficult to hang on to and difficult to define. But for Lesley Broadhead, helping people shake off negativity has become her career. Deborah Johnson finds out what being happy really means LESLEY Broadhead is sitting at her computer, struggling for inspiration with her latest piece of work. But not a hint of frustration is evident as she makes light of the situation.

‘My time in the jungle taught me so much’
10:06am Tuesday 5th February 2008
After a long career in the highly-pressured financial sector, Christine Dent decided to put her profession on hold in favour of doing voluntary work on the other side of the world. She tells Deborah Johnson about her life-changing experience

‘Why I don’t want to give up the ghost!’
10:13am Tuesday 29th January 2008
When postmistress Sheila Mulgrew was attacked by an armed robber, she fought back, armed with a hot cup of tea. Now she’s under threat again… this time from the government attack on rural post offices. She talks to Sharon Griffiths

Greeting the New Year with a slimline tonic
9:30am Tuesday 22nd January 2008
Eat, drink… and be overweight. After months of prevariaction, Lucy Richardson finally sticks to her resolution and attends her first weight loss group

Costume dramas
9:33am Tuesday 22nd January 2008
Walking into the front room of Jeni Bland’s little terraced house in Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve strayed into the wardrobe trailer of the latest Jane Austen screen adaptation, says Jenny Laue

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