Charli West

A personal trainer, who lost six male family members to suicide, has set up a men’s mental health run club to tackle increasing concerns around male suicide rates.


Ciaran Howard, 30, grew up surrounded by alcoholism and domestic abuse, and set up Tribal, a run club for men and their minds, in Putney at the start of this year to provide a space for men to talk.


Suicide is three times more common among men than women in England and Wales, according to data gathered between 1981 to 2023 from...

‘Timeless’ is a word that, over the years, seems to have lost the gravity of its meaning. It’s been used so much that we’ve become desensitised to it, so instead of resonating, it now conjures up something quite stale. Yet, ‘timeless’ is the only way to describe this production of Noel Coward’s 1930s play Private Lives at The Rose Theatre – and let me assure you, it’s anything but stale. 
With its central themes of love, marriage, and passion, humanity is put under the spotlight in all its raw a...

A frustrated single has set up speed dating workout at a Wandsworth gym to help like-minded people meet in the modern world.


Ali Hulley, 32, lives in south-west London and set up Push & Pull Fitness Dating last month at Apex Fitness in Earlsfield after feeling dissatisfied with dating apps.


The fitness fan had started to attend real-life dating events with her friends but found herself unable to meet like-minded individuals.


She said: “Dating in London I think is just quite a tough gam...

Safety is often a primary concern when choosing somewhere to live. Checking crime rates is a familiar habit for those living in cities to gain peace of mind that their new home will be safe. But for many living in the Welsh valleys, the threat to safety emerges from somewhere quite different: the discarded coal tips from Wales’ mining past.


The risk of collapse is a palpable reality for those living by disused coal tips, the majority of which are based in South Wales. This winter, bad weather...

Lene Hops moved from Germany to Wales in the middle of the pandemic. She was unaware that soon she would discover a passion as a sea swimmer that would allow her to feel “high on life” every day.


Lene unintentionally helped to found the sea swimming group, Dawnstalkers, earlier this year. The Penarth-based group grew organically during the pandemic, as ordinary people appeared at the seafront for sunrise every day to dunk in the water. 





It started when Lene realised she had lived in Pe...