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Jackie Annesley

London drivers are being hit at every turn

Saturday, 1.19pm, an email arrives from a Mr Garrett Emmerson, he of Surface Transport for TfL.

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The Thread by Victoria Hislop - review

Victoria Hislop champions the reading requirements of the comfy trouser brigade

Why are children so fat? Check their morning cereal

The foodies on Mumsnet call it crack for kids. Krave is the latest offering from Kellogg's to persuade children to eat a breakfast that is 30 per cent pure sugar. The TV ads feature bouncing cereal shells gobbling up chocolate, while the packets entice you to play Krave Krusaders on Facebook. Children love it

Not all women want to break the glass ceiling

The glass ceiling. I wish they would stop bashing it over women's heads. It's a patronising metaphor that's been bandied around for more than 30 years

Turkey baster lit: is this the new chick lit?

Three Wishes is a perfect girlie page-turner for Londoners with loud biological clocks, packed with hilarious and tragic anecdotes, plus lots of gynaecological detail

In Daughters-in-Law, it's the women who drive the story

If you've never tried Trollope before and the parents of the one you love have retired to a house beyond the M25, this one's for you

First find the funds, then we can find a cure

Anyone know any billionaires? I'd love to meet Lakshmi Mittal..." London mother Sharmila Nikapota was not joking last week when she made a clarion call to London's super-rich at the Everyman Cinema to find a cure for her eight-year-old daughter Sohana's rare skin condition

Beach life in Miami

Jackie Annesley gets a taste of Miami café culture on painfully glamorous South Beach ahead of next month's food festival

West London’s leafy streets hide dark family secrets

Scissors Paper Stone: A father lies in a coma in hospital and in the coming months his family secrets unravel. Sound familiar?

SATs mean children don't get the basics right

I’m no educational strategist but with three children at a state primary school, I know this much: SATs don’t appear to work

Capital talents just waiting to be unlocked

London is full of Rumers and Matt Cardles just waiting to be discovered

Feel good factor: The Su-Man Hsu facial

The Su-Man Hsu facial claims to make your face “come alive” with an in-depth massage-led facial that goes from halfway down your back up to the insides of your eye sockets

A new basement is down there with my worst ideas

Our basement may not have exactly been part of a collapse like the one in Belgravia this week, but its joys are not what I’d envisioned when we embarked on the subterranean project

Feel good factor: Juvéderm Hydrate Facial

A potent mix of hyaluronic acid — a naturally occurring substance in the skin — and the antioxidant mannitol is administered into the dermis with a needle

This secondary school problem doesn’t add up

It really is a lottery — there is no such thing as parental choice in picking secondary schools

My quest to become a MAMIL (Middle-aged Mum In Lycra)

How Jackie Annesley shed her underwear and a few pounds in training for a 280km charity cycle ride to Brussels

Why I’m giving up Catholicism

Sex scandals, misogyny and a terrorist priest have turned this writer against her lifelong religion

I can’t share David Cameron’s fear of state secondary schools

This irrational fear of the state system has London’s middle classes straining their marriages and remortgaging their houses

People like me shouldn’t receive child benefit

When George Osborne plunges the knife in on Budget day, we should save our squeals for something more important

Linthwaite House is a haven of 'peace and calm'

Through the rain, the award-winning Linthwaite beckoned, a 1900s house on a hilltop in seven acres of lawns, woods and a lake.

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