Opinion

Question: I have heard about people being ‘sectioned’. What does this mean?

Q. I am a full-time student at university and I have two dependent children. I have applied for housing benefit to help with my rent, but my claim was refused.

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

It is time that Sunderland was put well and truly on the Government’s funding map – and that is what I am fighting for at both regional and national levels this month.

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.

A top cop’s withering denouncement of the cost of austerity should come as a surprise to no-one in our community.

Last week, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey let slip that families will be £200 a month worse off under Universal Credit, the government’s flagship welfare policy.

If you want to know how desperate ambulance services can get to hit targets, just look south.

“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.

I was glued to the first episode of The Apprentice last week. The candidates were flown off to Malta to do the ‘find the items’ task.

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.

As uncomfortable to watch as Theresa May’s dance moves may be, it’s what she sorts at the negotiating table that really counts.