Kirsten Robertson

1 month ago | metro.co.uk | Kirsten Robertson

When Bec Evans thinks about the most difficult period in her life, her words are stark: 'I'd look at myself in the mirror and tell myself how disgusting I was.'The award-winning filmmaker was raised by a single mother in Camden, London, and after a family break down at an early age, Bec operated at '1000 miles an hour' as she tried to be 'the best at everything.'She found some solace in nature and would travel nearly two hours into the suburbs of London to be with horses - her favourite animal.

2 months ago | metro.co.uk | Sarah Ingram |Kirsten Robertson

Maggie Ratcliffe carries around a small piece of paper in her handbag with instructions in case she has a stroke. With no family and few friends, she is worried that if she ends up in hospital, no one will be around to ensure her wishes are carried out. Maggie, 84, has lived alone since the breakdown of her marriage when she was 27. An only child, her mother died when she was six and her father when she was 18. She has no children and no family.

2 months ago | metro.co.uk | Kirsten Robertson

'I don't think people think you are for real,' NME journalist Steve Lamacq said to musician Richey Edwards in 1991. The Welshman was part of up and coming four-piece the Manic Street Preachers, a band which had just held a slightly underwhelming gig at the Norwich Arts Centre. Lamacq, then a young reporter sent to interview the band, witnessed a crowd member shout 'plastic punks' up at the stage. To prove how authentic the Manic Street Preachers were to NME readers, Richey reached for a razorblade.

2 months ago | metro.co.uk | Kirsten Robertson

'Is the killer playing a game?' asked the front page of the Hertfordshire Mercury newspaper on April 10, 2009. It had been an unsettling month for locals, to say the least. First, there was the leg. The limb, severed at the thigh, was discovered wrapped in blue plastic a few weeks earlier in the small Hertfordshire village of Cottered. Stuffed into a green Gullivers holdall, it was found by Roger Kingsley, of the nearby Lodge Farm.

Jan 13, 2025 | msn.com | Kirsten Robertson

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