Opinion

As I get older, I’m more and more reliant on my diary to let me know what day it is.

As I’m writing this, the sun is shining and the birds are chirping.

Several weeks back, I came across a highly emotive article which centred around the suicide of a father of one of the victims of the Sandyhook school shooting in Connecticut, writes Mansfield counsellor Jason Hanson.

I remember back in the day the TV was a massive unit that sat in the corner of the room and didn’t really do much, writes Steve N Allen.

I took last week off - which coincided with very little mention of ‘‘boring Bregsit” on TV.

A robust 19th century pinfire shotgun from Vienna is not something you would normally see in a workplace - but then life is never ordinary, nor typical at Hansons, writes Charles Hanson.

There’s a lot to be argued about in this world, but one thing’s for sure – everyone is outraged by cold calls.

You may have noticed I get angry about things which don’t matter in the main.

Wife’s sister come round other day. O were on ’er own on account of ’er ’usband bein’ dead. Mind, it were rate sad. Shid sent ’im up garden to cut a cabbage and ’e just dade. I said that were awful and what did o do. ’pparently shae oppened a tin o’ peas.

I bought a pair of trainers from a private seller on an online marketplace. The advert said they were Asics but when they arrived the branding said Basics. They are clearly not what was advertised and they are terrible quality. Do I have any rights? What can I do?

Most people know that councils have far less money to spend than they used to – but did you know that Derbyshire is facing an additional problem?

A few weeks ago I revealed that I had been test driving several cars because I was bored with my latest runaround.

Did you know that tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the world? Yes, the world. I doubt it would be legal if it were to be released onto the market today, writes John Sargeant, chairman of Community Pharmacy Derbyshire.

With the new season of hit TV series Game of Thrones soon to return after a two-year absence, many enthusiasts have spent hours attempting to predict how the epic drama could end - even drawing their conclusions from real-life history.

Chairman of Toyota’s European operations Didier Leroy told the Financial Times that a no-deal Brexit would make it “extremely complicated” to build new models at its British plants.

Mobile phones and iPads aside, it doesn’t seem like we have advanced too much over the past decade. Let’s face it, we aren’t living in the fantasy world that Marty McFly visited in ‘Back to the Future’. There may be no flying cars or holographic waiters as of yet, but compared to when I was a child, technology is advancing at a scarily fast pace, writes Abbie Dodson.

So, crime is going up according to the latest figures.