Elly Blake

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Elly Blake

While I don't believe in fate, you could say a series of unfortunate events are what had led me to a side-street full of breezeblock offices in Vauxhall last Monday afternoon. You see, it had all been going rather wrong for me recently, and as friends liked to inform me I was having 'just the worst luck'.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Elly Blake

Six strangers walk into a restaurant... no, it's not the beginning of a joke or some new First Dates spin-off show, it's my Wednesday night. It's 7.01pm and I've somehow found myself sat around a dining table in Soho with five people who, until 60 seconds ago, I'd never laid eyes on before. It's a rather unusual situation to find yourself in, which for me is becoming a pretty regular occurrence.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Elly Blake

I've joined the tens of thousands of Brits signing up to Sober Spring this year. Excited, I ring my supportive friend to let them know the good news, but I'm not exactly met with the fanfare I was expecting. 'Sober Spring?' he practically spits. 'I swear you're just making that up to get out of coming to the pub with us, Elly.'No, I protest, it's a real thing... Run by Alcohol Change UK, it's a three-month challenge to ditch the booze and focus on your health, mindset and wellbeing.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Elly Blake

The dating apps are dead. Trust me, I know. I've had enough dating horror stories to last me a lifetime, and I've only been on them for five minutes. There was the guy who dragged me to a pub for our first date so I could watch his football team lose spectacularly, before spending the rest of the night barely speaking. And who can forget the one who offered to take me out for lunch before their card mysteriously 'stopped working' and made me foot the bill?

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Elly Blake

More than 1,300 flights to and from Heathrow Airport will be disrupted on Friday due to the closure of the airport following a fire at a nearby electrical substation. Thousands of homes have been left without power and more than 100 people were evacuated after a transformer within the North Hyde electrical substation caught fire in west London. The airport, which is supplied by the substation, said it was among those impacted by the power outage.