Wisdom from far away and long ago
The Express | 14 Nov 1996
Prince Charles’s confidant and spiritual guru Sir Laurens van der Post, tells Caroline Phillips abot passion, plants and his extraordinary past.
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Think yourself fit
The Express | 14 Nov 1996
If the thought of exercise makes you weak, meet the personal trainer who hypnotises clients into shape. Caroline Phillips falls under his spell.
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I went in search of self, seduction and sex
The Express | 14 Nov 1996
Freya North, 28, has just won the literary lottery. Publishers fought to buy her first novel, Sally, a feisty romp that helped her scoop £200,000 in a three-book deal.
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Mother of all headaches
E.S. | 25 Aug 1996
There are 149 causes of headache – and this woman knows them all. Caroline Phillips meets the Queen of Pain.
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No doctor thinks that abortions are good
The Express | 25 Aug 1996
Professor Phillip Bennett has been vilified over the past week as a national hate figure. Most of the time he has been holed-up in his West London house behind closed curtains with his girlfriend Lisa and his two cats.
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Nightmares of the eight-baby case doctor
The Express | 25 Aug 1996
He is the father of a little boy, the son of a convicted terrorist and the man trying to save Mandy Allwood’s eight unborn babies. He is a person who hates performing abortions so much that he wants to vomit every time he does one. He is also the doctor who helped a woman have a baby after 13 miscarriages.
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Farewell to last of the lover boys
The Sunday Express | 25 Aug 1996
This is a time of national mourning. Of women wearing black Armani armbands. Of not a dry high cheekbone in the country. This is the era of the distressed female. The last male remaining on the shopping list of the world’s most desirable men has just become unavailable.
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A mother wanted me to abort one of her healthy twins. It may sound unethical but it was either that or for both babies to die.
The Express | 25 Aug 1996
Professor Phillip Bennett faces a dilemma. His patient, 16 weeks pregnant, is carrying healthy twins and cannot abide the prospect of having two children. She says she couldn’t cope. She has told Mr Bennett, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at London’s Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, that if she were carrying just one baby, she would continue her pregnancy.
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Clouding a life and death issue
The Express | 25 Aug 1996
Somewhere in London is a pregnant young woman – we call her Miss B – who is due to give birth to a healthy brother or sister for her existing toddler. Miss B has no money and nobody to support her. Until a few weeks ago, she was expecting healthy twins, conceived naturally, without any fertility treatment or medical intervention.
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The man who put the ‘oh’ into polo
The Express | 25 Aug 1996
He lived in a chicken hut and worked as a builder but Tarquin Southwell is the horsey set’s darling.
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I can’t describe the fear when I thought he would kill me
The Express | 18 Aug 1996
In her first interview, the victim of the brutal Brixton sexual attack and kidnapping talks about the ordeal and its effect on her life. This week, her attacker, Anthony Ferrira, was jailed for 20 years.
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Making a killing
E.S. | 14 Aug 1996
This voodoo doctor returned from the dead to run his own little shop of horrors in Britain.
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