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Nya, TPE's Pets as Therapy Dog. Photo courtesy of Transpennine Express

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The dog taking the stress out of train journeys

One of my dear friends is Chaplain, Reverend Mike Roberts, Rail Industry and British Transport Police Chaplain whom I have featured in QuaysLife in the past. Earlier in the year, Mike included me in the following email. “Hi Lorraine Meet Steve...

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Daniel Casey (Barnaby) in The Killings at Badger's Drift, credit Manuel Harlan

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Daniel Casey steps up as DCI Barnaby for Midsomer Murders on stage

Carmel Thomason

Daniel Casey has been promoted. After playing DS Gavin Troy on Midsomer Murders for a six-year stint, he’s now back in the UK’s most dangerous county (fictionally speaking, at least) as DCI Tom Barnaby in the stage play The Killings at...

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Claudia Shnier talks toxic relationships and confronting her trauma head on

Holly Critchley

Claudia Shnier’s one-woman show ‘Split Ends’ is an autobiographical tragi-comedy exploring abusive relationships, coercive control, and our tendencies to cling to the things that hurt us most. Since debuting at the 2025 Brighton Fringe, the show has...

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