Huddersfield Examiner - Lifestyle - Health and Family

Health and Family: Laurel Gilbert’s lifelong vegetarian lifestyle

Huddersfield Examiner — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Family history: Millions of old names from the past

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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 reports

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Weekend family feature

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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

Call for calendar painters

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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

The driving force behind Huddersfield female golf professional Alex Keighley

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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 reports

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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.

How becoming a mum boosted Rebecca McKay business ideas

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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 Linthwaite

Can gadgets help learning

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Lights for children

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Bunny Cottage Lamp

Ask The Expert

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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

Family and Health: Drawing on a newly-discovered talent

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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 reports

Family and Health: Exercise the grey matter in retirement

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:01:00 GMT

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.