Hashtags and Facebook groups are powerful, but not all-powerful – remember we are dealing with the BBC here, a very traditional institution – so take two minutes to EMAIL them. I sent the following to both these addresses: srconsultation@bbc.co.uk + trust.enquiries@bbc.co.uk [The parts in italics are what I would have...

Buenas dias from a 70s throwback hotel in Aguascalientes, Central Mexico. Arriving late last night after a day of driving through breathtaking scenery (lush green fields, bountiful crops and livestock everywhere with majestic purple mountains all around) was a little like stepping in to an episode of Fawlty Towers...

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Best. Birthday. EVER! I’m just sorry I don’t have photos to share of me raucously celebrating the stroke of midnight on the 1st of June in the small, otherwise quiet bar on the Barcelona-Paris train, my boyfriend and our lovely new travelling companion Chris singing Happy Birthday to me...

It seems my recent post on filming and photographing the police was a timely one. RIP Ian Tomlinson and great thanks to the two people observant enough to have filmed the shocking and utterly unprovoked attack on him. It can’t be much comfort, but at least his family know the...