Joan Marks obituary | Life and style

My mother, Joan Marks, who has died aged 95, moved from Australia to the UK with her young family in 1970, bucking the emigration trends of the time and spending most of the rest of her life in Surrey. In England she continued her work as a housewife and was also of great support to…

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I prided myself on being rational and easygoing. Then I started coaching competitive kids’ sports | Myke Bartlett

Karma may not be instant, but it is invariably ironic. So it is that, after four decades of remaining steadfastly opposed to competitive sport, I now spend early mornings, late afternoons, occasional evenings and every weekend driving my children to an ever-expanding range of sporting activities. The sharpest twist of the irony blade is that,…

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