Health and Family - Lifestyle - Huddersfield Examiner

Health and Family: Laurel Gilbert’s lifelong vegetarian lifestyle May 24 2012

In National Vegetarian Week, HILARIE STELFOX meets lifelong veggie Laurel Gilbert who not only lives a healthy vegetarian lifestyle but has also made food her business and creates new recipes for one of Huddersfield’s oldest companies.Read

Features: Lucianne Hinch didn’t even know what an upholsterer was May 23 2012

While her friends were planning to go to university Lucianne Hinch was learning how to be an upholsterer. It might have seemed like an unusual choice of career for a 17-year-old girl but it’s a decision she has never regretted. Hilarie Stelfox meets a young woman working in a male-dominated craft.Read

Health and Family: Taekwondo - a world-class sport fit for all the family May 16 2012

The South Korean martial art taekwondo is one of the world’s fastest growing sports. It’s also catching on fast in Huddersfield. One Birkby club, which began with a single class six years ago, now boasts hundreds of members. Hilarie Stelfox went along to find out why.Read

The NHS saved my life, now we need to save the NHS: Huddersfield author gives his verdict after six months in hospital May 09 2012

Six months as a patient in NHS hospitals gave Huddersfield writer Steve Rudd an insight into an institution that he says needs to be defended.Read

Family history: Millions of old names from the past May 09 2012

PEOPLE searching for their family history can turn to the West Yorkshire Archive Service for help as it has millions of names on record.Read

Family and Health: How Anna Dawson-Jones made a career out of motherhood May 02 2012

Mother-of-three Anna Dawson-Jones says the arrival of her first child felt “like someone had dropped an atom bomb on my life.” But with help from the National Childbirth Trust she picked up the pieces and is now making a career out of the experiences of motherhood and encouraging others to do the same. HILARIE STELFOX reportsRead

Almondbury son’s charity skydive marks mum’s brave bowel cancer fight Apr 30 2012

AN ALMONDBURY teenager is taking to the skies to celebrate his mum’s amazing recovery from bowel cancer.Read

Family and Health: Lockwood woman’s fight against rare cell disease Apr 25 2012

At the age of 19, Laura Jakubowski learned she was suffering from mitochondrial disease – a rare cell disorder – for which there is no cure. Now 26, the illness has robbed her of her hearing and even left her on the brink of death. ANNE-MARIE SENIOR finds out how this cruel condition is taking over her life.Read

Weekend family feature Apr 21 2012

COMPUTERS, gaming and technology are such a big part of modern life that it seems they’re now affecting children’s sleep.Read

Call for calendar painters Apr 19 2012

PRIMARY school children are being invited to take part in the annual Children’s Charity Calendar Painting Competition run by law firm Walker Morris.Read

The driving force behind Huddersfield female golf professional Alex Keighley Apr 18 2012

Alex Keighley says the fact she didn’t have pushy parents helped her to become a professional golf player and blaze a trail for women in the sport. Now, as one of the country’s few female head club professionals, she’s helping other young people to succeed at the game. HILARIE STELFOX reportsRead

Martin House Children’s Hospice has been helping Huddersfield families for 25 years. Apr 12 2012

THEY have helped hundreds of Huddersfield families. Now Martin House Children’s Hospice is celebrating 25 years – and is caring for 78 Huddersfield families at the moment.Read

How becoming a mum boosted Rebecca McKay business ideas Apr 12 2012

WHEN Rebecca McKay became a new mum she was looking for a baby sling to make life a little easier.Read

Family and Health: No pizza, pasta or chocolate for coeliac sufferer Lyla Apr 11 2012

How would you feel if common foods such as bread, cakes and pasta were off the menu or a tiny biscuit crumb could make you ill? For the one in 100 people who have coeliac disease this is an everyday, lifelong reality. Hilarie Stelfox meets a six-year-old sufferer from LinthwaiteRead

Can gadgets help learning Apr 07 2012

TODAY’S children were born into an age of technology, and that means clever gadgets and gizmos are as much a part of their lives as pogo sticks, hula hoops and spacehoppers were a generation ago.Read

Lights for children Apr 07 2012

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Ask The Expert Apr 07 2012

ANOTHER reader’s questions answered by a Family column expert:Read

Family and Health: Drawing on a newly-discovered talent Apr 04 2012

Age is no obstacle to taking up a new hobby or even a new career as 72-year-old Tim Burnay has proved by launching himself as a Yorkshire landscape painter. As the UK population now has an average life expectancy of 80, the retirement years offer plenty of opportunity for learning new skills. HILARIE STELFOX reportsRead

Family and Health: Exercise the grey matter in retirement Apr 04 2012

IT’S GOOD to keep the old grey matter working after retirement, says Judith Wilcock who is office manager for the Huddersfield and District University of the Third Age.Read

Easter 2012 - What's on in Huddersfield and West Yorkshire Mar 30 2012

EASTER is almost here, and with the beginning of the school holidays families willbe looking for days out and free things to do at Easter 2012 in Huddersfield and WestYorkshire.Read

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