Opinion

There’s a plant for every occasion and a few that reflect the darker undertones of Halloween.

In a fortnight the Tories are announcing their budget and that austerity is over. The reality felt in communities across the country is that it isn’t. Moreover, the damage for many has already been done.

Some 10 million people in the UK have arthritis, suffering from painful joints.

Q. I work for an agency, but my hours are fluctuating a lot and I never know what income I am going to receive. Is there anything that I can claim when my income is low?

If you have a greenhouse, or any structure that you’re going to be overwintering plants in, your number one priority at this time is making sure it’s clean.

Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects up to 50,000 people in the UK, and whose sufferers are said to include the likes of Beethoven, Selena Gomez and Seal.

“I don’t feel like I fit in anywhere and have no friends. I hate being this unhappy but I can’t control it. I feel so alone.”

They say ‘travel broadens the mind’ but that’s because the ‘they’ are English and we don’t do succinct.

Rather than focusing on one issue this week, I will look at some of the legal issues which have recently made the headlines.

Q. My partner has just passed away, and we had lived together for many years, but never married.

It's World Mental Health Day this Wednesday, and this year's focus is on the problems faced by young people.

The ‘engagement’ process of the merger between the City Hospitals Sunderland and South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust finished last week.

I have long campaigned and held Ministers to account over the lack of any cohesive and strategic vision for our town centres.

When the going gets tough and life throws some curve balls my way, I take solace in the knowledge that the end of the world is just around the corner.

Q. My son has changed his mind about the college course he started in September.

It’s World Animal Plant Day on October 4, and with the fashion for houseplants it seems logical to pick out varieties that both owners and pets will get along with.

Smoking is the UK’s biggest cause of preventable illness and premature death, killing more than 100,000 people annually.

“I have tried starving myself and exercising so that I can become skinny all over. I feel like the odd one out and that everywhere I go I am being looked at and judged.”

We all want more power over our lives and Jeremy Corbyn and Labour are the route.