Sarah Rainey

5 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Rainey |Tracey Kandohla

May is an especially heart-wrenching month for Kate and Gerry McCann. Last Saturday, May 3, marked 18 years since their daughter, Madeleine, disappeared into the darkness from her bed in a holiday resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Almost overnight, the blonde three-year-old, with her toothy smile and distinctive fleck in her blue-green eyes, became the most famous missing child in the world.

1 week ago | afr.com | Sarah Rainey

May 7, 2025 – 7.20am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Every morning, just before 9 am, Nadia* logs on to her computer, checks her emails and looks at her work calendar for the day ahead. Her 9-5 in human resources is, in many ways, a very ordinary job.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sarah Rainey

Every morning, just before 9am, Nadia* logs on to her computer, checks her emails and looks at her work calendar for the day ahead. Her 9-5 in human resources is, in many ways, a very ordinary job. Part of a team of 12, all of whom work remotely, she's been in the role since 2021 and is - according to her latest review with her manager - due a pay rise from her £45,000-a-year salary. But there is something a little less ordinary about Nadia's work.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Rainey

A carpet of spring bluebells has sprung up around Loudham Hall in Pettistree, Suffolk. Aside from the occasional dog walker, the 2,300-acre estate, once the home of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who died when his superyacht, Bayesian, sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak storm last August, is eerily quiet. Ewes and lambs idle under shady trees and pink blossoms scatter over the gardens of quaint, ivy-clad cottages dotted around the estate.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Rainey

Pockets bulging with Brie, cases full of salami – and usually a slab of French butter stuffed in my hand luggage to smear on a baguette aboard the Eurostar home. No trip abroad is complete without a tour de force – Supermarket Sweep-style – of a European supermarket en route to the airport or station. As any foodie knows, there are few greater joys than the cheese counter at Carrefour, where luscious, oozy Brie de Meaux comes in wheels so big they barely fit in the trolley.