This month one hundred years ago Winston Churchill addressed an audience of nationalists in Celtic Park, Belfast, and told them of his support for Home Rule. Local historian GORDON LUCY reflects on the infamous visit

A book charting the history of the Downshire Hospital from its days as an asylum to the present time will be central to a week-long series of celebrations next month. LAURA MURPHY reports

“THERE is something about the Downshire, and almost everybody who came to work in it would say that. There is something about it that gets a hold of you,” says Sean Kelly.

EMMA DEIGHAN recently took part in the first ever Antigravity Yoga class in Castlereagh, a new fitness phenomenon that is still in its infancy even across the pond in America - and literally fell head over heels in love with it

JACQUI Connery, wife of popular News Letter columnist and talented artist John Connery who died last July following a long battle with cancer, said she is touched her 24-year-old son Michael, John’s nephew Andrew Holden and a group of other energetic cyclists, are undertaking the 220-mile maracycle in her husband’s memory and to raise much needed funds for charity.

BURNSIDE Hall was packed last Friday night, the occasion being a fundraiser for Ballykeel Loyal Sons of Ulster Flute Ballymena.

Has the atmosphere in your home been unbearable since your child became a teenager? Barely recognise your once adorable and well-behaved offpsring? Then it might be time to call in the experts. LAURA MURPHY reports on a new TV show aiming to do just that

Following on from the report on the special service of thanksgiving for marriage in St Mark’s Parish Church, Armagh, LAURA MURPHY meets two of the couples who attended and finds out why their nuptials weren’t just for Valentine’s Day, but for life

BOWEL cancer is the second most common cancer in Northern Ireland and claims the lives of 400 local people each year, but when detected at a very early stage there is a 90 per cent successful treatment rate.

Alaster Smyth, 68, from Glynn, near Larne in Co Antrim praises the bowel cancer screening programme, led by the Public Health Agency, for saving his life.

King George VI died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham on February 6, 1952 and his death was the occasion of a great outpouring of national grief. Local historian GORDON LUCY reflects on monarch’s life

If we’re complaining that our children are too busy to talk to us, there is one medium through which we can be sure of keeping up with their adventures - Facebook. And more older people then ever before are logging on to this popular website, as LAURA MURPHY finds out when she meets two ‘silver Facebookers’

ABOUT two years ago Co Down woman Hilary Glenn set up a Facebook profile and received her first friend request.

UNTIL Warrenpoint man Hugh Heatley was medically retired at the age of 54, he had never even used a computer.

GRAHAM Reid’s Billy plays, screened in the 1980s, offered, for the first time, a glimpse into working-class Ulster Portestant life.

THE BELFAST Children’s Festival returns with a week-long programme beginning, March 9, of fun-filled events and low cost activities for children aged 0-14.

EVERY year in Northern Ireland more than 180 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Grim statistics, yet funding and awareness of ovarian cancer remains low.

THE search is on to find the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2012.

WONDER Woman Niamh Callan is taking off to sign up for the Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) Wonder Woman Challenge in April.

Not all families adhere to the ideal of producing 2.4 children to complete their little unit, as a new series on Channel 4 recently highlighted. LAURA MURPHY explores the effects of living with multiple brothers and sisters - and meets a Northern Ireland man who grew up with 14