Jenny Johnston

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

All week, the tributes have poured in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't hesitated to come forward. One woman's account of how her son's life was saved by his 'kindness and humanity' and willingness to 'go beyond what is expected of a police officer' is particularly moving. She wrote about how the troubled teenager lost his way in life and became known to police, who were forever having to bring him home.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston |Andy Jehring

Quite how young Bella May Culley is screams out in her carefree – and copious – social media posts. At the start of May, on an earlier leg of her far-flung travels, the 18-year-old from Teesside posted an image from the coral reefs off the famous El Nido beach in the Philippines and captioned it 'swimming with nemo'. It was a reference to the 2003 Pixar film Finding Nemo, which, it is startling to note, is older than she is.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

Karen Danson’s father started to sexually abuse her when she was six. It could have been yesterday, so vivid are the memories. ‘The first time, I was dragged downstairs at 1am,’ says Karen, 45. He would watch porn and make me sit on his lap, but on this night, he pushed me to the floor, pulled off my nightie and made me rotate, saying he wanted to have a good look at me. ‘I wanted to be a ballet dancer back then and I closed my eyes and imagined myself dancing. He didn’t like that.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

The sofa is brand new, sumptuous and oh-so strokable. It has a buttery velvet finish, which lends itself beautifully to vacuuming stripes into the fabric, if that’s your thing (and it is most definitely Roo Day’s thing). It’s cream, though. Cream! Who buys a cream velvet sofa just a few weeks away from giving birth? Perched on this lovely sofa with Roo and her massive bump, I’m nervous for her, and for this sofa. If her waters break now, all is doomed.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

Will they, won’t they? How could they not, given how well they get on, how much she laughs at his jokes, how much they finish each other’s sentences, how much they seem to actually like each other, even when they are both knackered and stuck in a thunderstorm. And the chemistry! It’s there, surely? You don’t need a map to find it. A (soppy) section of the British public has almost been buying confetti over the past few weeks, hoping for a finishing line in Gretna Green, home of happy-ever-afters.