Sian Ellidge

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Latest articles from Sian Ellidge

Birth of a parents' revolution

For 60 years, childbirth charity the NCT has been supporting parents through pregnancy and the early years. Sian Ellidge looks at what the group has achieved and its aims for the future.

Colourful cornus

To prepare for next winter, it's important to lay the groundwork now

Room to breathe in London

HAVING taken our awe-struck seven-year-old son to London for the first time last year, we were keen to repeat the experience before his baby sibling arrived.

The direct approach

The best way to get a job isn't by sitting behind a screen, it's by getting out there

After the gold rush

CANNY footballer in his day, David Copland. He was in the Reeth team which proved Wensleydale League invincibles, scored eight in a match for Richmond in the 15-1 win against Catterick Military Hospital – “people said it must have been the patients” – and in 1982 was in the Richmond team which won the Darlington Charity Cup.

In on the park

IAN Barnes runs and runs; now he overruns. His 80th birthday two days ago, he continues to represent England, to train six days a week, to outstrip credibility. The column had flagged the milestone a couple of weeks back, promised a more substantial celebration, arranged to meet at 8.45am last Saturday before the weekly Darlington Park Run – or parky run, as at that hour on so sub-zero a morning it might not unreasonably have been supposed.