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The highlight of the evening was a short play titled ‘Treason at Trewiddly’ based on the fictitious Trewiddly Manor

The paintings of two Bristol artists, Patti Leavitt and Barbara Klein, exemplify the beautiful views of Maine’s coastal scenes, villages and natural world available at the Pemaquid Art Gallery. Both long-time members of the Gallery, Leavitt works in...

Were I to overcome a lifelong scepticism about the healing powers of talk therapy, I imagine languishing on a psychiatrist’s divan and whimpering something along these lines: ‘All this “woke” stuff – I’ve even come to hate the word. Resisting its idiocies is taking over my life. I worry that I’m not setting my own

Two well-known local artists showing at the Pemaquid Art Gallery, Kathleen Horst and Cindy Spencer, create delightful watercolors but with charmingly different sensibilities. Horst is popular for her miniature, elongated composite views of our local...

Patients should routinely weigh themselves when visiting their GP in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, health bosses have said.

With bold color and lighting, and rich atmospheric effects, two Pemaquid Gallery artists, Sally Loughridge and Kim Traina, evoke an emotional response to their brilliant Maine landscapes. Traina works predominantly in soft pastels, whereas this...

With bold color and lighting, and rich atmospheric effects, two Pemaquid Gallery artists, Sally Loughridge and Kim Traina, evoke an emotional response to their brilliant Maine landscapes. Traina works predominantly in soft pastels, whereas this...

Cynical Therapies shows how social-justice activism is doing serious damage to troubled people.

The inaugural Scilly Dark Skies Week has just been held on St Martins island. Tamara Hinson dropped by for some star gazing and a Saturn selfie...

One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed to exceed those among enslaved blacks in the south by an 11-to-one ratio. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, a notoriously strident defender of slavery, seized...