A photo hangs in the Monaco home of Paula Radcliffe, beaming with a Union Jack draped over her shoulders, daughter Isla in her arms, as she celebrates victory in the New York Marathon. It is Radcliffe at her peak, a snapshot of what life once was and part of an interesting tale into the machinations of family life with her husband Gary Lough and the couple’s two children – they also have a son Raphael.
The Reddit community came together to ask users who had ordered online brides what their experiences of marriage had been and many of the answers were just as depressing as you may anticipate.
The London marathon is set to get off to a rainy start, with cloud and downpours expected from early morning.
I suspect that most would walk out and go home, with £1,000,000 in their pocket.
* Local roads were closed, ambulances were on standby. Microphones, suspended between trees, were ready to capture the blast of a Napoleonic cannon borrowed from a military academy. The fifth blast was deemed to be a "take"; the tape was taken back to the studio and dubbed 16 times into a recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. This recording, made in 1954, was the first one to follow the composer's instructions to the letter.
It seems to be almost every week now that one of our news editors offers a strong story in our morning conference about disillusionment among British teachers.
It was perhaps inevitable that someone, somewhere would attempt to use the revolutionary gene-editing technique of “Crispr” to try to modify the DNA of a human embryo, and so take the first steps towards the utopia of ridding families of inherited diseases – or the dystopia of “designer babies” chosen for such attributes as beauty, intelligence or sporting prowess.
Hindsight is an extremely useful commodity for a politician who wishes to appear wise and statesmanlike. Fortunately, it is always in plentiful supply.