7 d. ago ‘Sidmouth became our summer place’: Jeremy Vine on why his family love holidaying in Devon

The broadcaster and author can’t get enough of this stretch of England’s south coast, and has even set his first murder mystery thereMy earliest memory of Devon is being lost, and my mum crying. I was at junior school. I had a friend whose mother was described as “vague” – this was the 1970s, so that could have been code for almost anything. The vague mother had given my normally quite organised mother directions to a remote house where my schoolfriend spent his summers. We were “popping in” (70s code: spending the day there). The instructions to find the place were something like, “Turn left after South Zeal, pass the dirt track and follow the direction the sheep are facing.”After an hour of pretending we were still on the right route, my mum suddenly burst into tears and uttered a rare denunciation of a fellow human being. “That SILLY woman!” she shouted. “We don’t know where we are. Nobody does.” Continue reading...

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Carmen Corr-Davies, 28, withdrew from society after being bullied, mocked, and targeted online over a condition - often dubbed 'fish odour syndrome' - which causes her to smell

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'I don't have any quality of life - I have to wake up and have this smell every day', said Carmen Davies who has an ultra-rare condition

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1 week ago Young mum's rare condition causes her to smell like 'rotten fish and eggs'

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Carmen Davies, 29, from Fallowfield, has a rare condition that's forced her to 'live life away from people'

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1 week ago Agony of Manchester mum, 29, who smells like 'rotten fish and eggs'

Carmen Davies, 29, from Fallowfield, has a rare condition that's forced her to 'live life away from people'

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Judy was seen celebrating her 77th birthday with family, including daughter Chloe, son Jack, and husband Richard

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