By Helen Werin
Photo shows: Alghero, looking from the old town.
My daughter had told her little school friends that I was going to Siberia. I might as well have been for all that I knew of Sardinia.
It's the greatest thing to travel with few preconceptions or expectations, so I had…
Helen Werin, Travel Writer
25 April, 2008
Research reveals workplace depression
Research shows that bosses underestimate how much their colleagues and employees are suffering from stress, anxiety and depression.
It also reveals that almost three in every ten employees will have a mental health problem in any one year.
Mental health problems in the workplace can be very disruptive - both… Features Correspondent
17 April, 2008
The Big Garden Birwatch which took place over the weekend of January 26 and 27, when almost 400,000 people counted more than six million birds across 228,000 gardens.
Organised by the RSPB, members of the public are asked to watch their garden for an hour counting the birds and recording… editor@nottinghamng9.co.uk
13 April, 2008
Micro-scaffolding could help stem cells rebuild the brain after a stroke
Inserting tiny scaffolding into the brain could dramatically reduce damage caused by strokes the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting has heard.
With funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) neurobiologists from the Institute of Psychiatry and tissue engineers from The University of Nottingham have… editor@nottinghamng9.co.uk
13 April, 2008
PDSA’s children’s club, Pet Protectors, is inviting kids to enter a drawing competition for the chance to win a fantastic Pontin’s family holiday!
The competition, which appears in the April issue of the club magazine, Animal Antics, invites budding artists to draw a picture of one of the Pet Protectors… Leisure Correspondent
12 April, 2008
There’s something about the latest Mazda MX-5 that engenders a feeling of cultural dislocation.
Mazda made no secret of the fact the original MX-5, launched in February 1989, was based in philosophy on the classic British sports car and the phenomenal global success of this car tends to mask the… Motoring Correspondent
12 April, 2008
