4th February 2012: With freezing temperatures terrorising us all of late, it’s easy to feel down in the dumps and in need of a pick me up. But where do we start?

4th Februry 2012: I like to think that I live a healthy, active lifestyle. I love to cycle and walk, and have even started yoga and street dancing lessons.

The Coalition Government’s Health and Social Care Bill has attracted a great deal of criticism in recent months and again this week by Ed Miliband at PMQs.

IF John Terry wasn’t such a self-centred, egotistical, pig-headed individual, he’d have quit the England captaincy when his alleged racial abuse first led to charges.

Power to the People... Citizen Smith (Wolfie/Foxy) would have been proud.

WELL that was one of the saddest Saturdays of my life in sport.

I have to confess to (almost) shouting at the radio this week, during a discussion on Radio 4’s “Today” programme between an academic and a woman who promotes breakfast clubs, about their merits or otherwise.

POOR old Chris Beeby had one of those weekends you like to forget in a hurry.

I LOVE a good ‘told you so’ moment so let me remind you what I wrote when Kenny Dalglish was appointed Liverpool boss.

A survey out this week revealed the top ten awkward questions that kids ask their parents.

There is a saying that goes you can tell a man by the shoes he wears. Personally, I think a man’s shoes can send very mixed messages.

WAS ET newshound Mark Plummer on the scent of a massive scoop? Something big must have been going on at Posh?

Well, the most depressing day of the year has passed. Thousands of us were off ‘sick’ on Monday.

EVERYTHING about the BDO World Championships smacks of small-time.

Hallo, here is the news... Peterborough boss, Marco Cereste, has delivered a rousing, New Year speech, to his ever-diminishing troops, ahead of what promises to be a very difficult 2012.

I’d be a lousy boxer. I’m not given to acts of sporadic violence so I would find it very hard to hit someone who hadn’t done anything to me. That’s the bit about boxing I could never get my head round.

The big issues at Westminster this week have been David Cameron’s challenge to the Scottish SNP government to “put up or shut up” and call a referendum on independence and plans for the High Speed 2 rail line from London to Birmingham and beyond.