
Welcome to the very best year of my life, writes Vanessa Lloyd-Thomas – in fact not just the best year of my life, but possibly the very best year of your life too . . .

Shirley Tart meets an inspirational animal welfare worker

Ken Tudor issues an appeal on behalf of our feathered friends, who have already had to battle through fierce winter weather

Neil Thomas enjoys some thoroughly modern cooking in the thoroughly unmodern surroundings of Drapers’ Hall in Shrewsbury