How to build a garden office for as little as £5k
Working from the kitchen table may have started as a novelty, but now we need WFH solutions for the long haul. Here, we show you how
26 April 2021 • 3:27pm
Owner Faye Hamilton
works in her garden
studio, designed
by AO Architecture
(aoarchitecture.co.uk)
Credit: French+Tye/AO Architecture
Ever since Covid-19 restrictions forced many to embrace working from home full-time, the way we think about our home work spaces has changed. The kitchen table or tiny desk crammed in next to the spare bed were fine when working in pyjamas was a novelty, but now we need solutions for the long haul, in terms of boosting both productivity and the way we feel about our homes.
Captain Tom Moore s unseen family pictures
It would have been Captain Sir Tom Moore’s 101st birthday this week. Here, his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore talks about the father she knew
24 April 2021 • 7:00am
Clockwise from right: The family at the Champers restaurant in Barbados; and in previously unpublished pictures, Captain Tom with former cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers at Bridgetown’s Kensington Oval; with daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and grandchildren Benjie and Georgia on Christmas Day last year; at home
in early December
Credit: Provided by Captain Tom’s family
Just over a year ago, Captain Tom Moore was living a quiet life in Bedfordshire with his daughter Hannah, her husband Colin and their two children, Benjie, now 17, and Georgia, 12. He had served in the Army, got married, had two daughters, retired. So far, so normal.
Street in Birmingham City Centre
Credit: Stephen Burke
As metro mayor for the West Midlands, Andy Street – a slight, wiry, hyper-energetic man – has responsibility for an area of three million people and a budget of around £900 million a year. His remit includes economic growth, housing, transport and skills. It does not, strictly speaking, include having an encyclopaedic knowledge of bus routes in the region, but Street – who does not have a mayoral car, preferring to take public transport or walk, in his case at a brisk, military clip – is a man with a painstaking attention to fine detail. ‘I believe we’ll be taking the 126,’ he says, as we hurry towards Dudley bus station, to the accompaniment of the keening cries of animals carrying on a stiff breeze from the nearby zoo.
The retired British Colonel who rescued 41 hostages kidnapped by Somali pirates
When three ships were captured by Somali pirates nobody seemed to care about the crews. Until a retired British Colonel decided to save them
A seized
Taiwanese fishing vessel run aground in Hobyo, Somalia
Credit: AP
If you were being held captive by Somali pirates, and Col John Steed (retired) were your only chance of rescue, you might just be tempted to give up hope altogether. A former defence attaché to Britain’s embassy in Kenya, Steed is a mild-mannered, amiable figure who appears better suited to the cocktail circuit than to cloak-and-dagger stuff.