Reports* last year revealed that the cost of raising a child, from birth to the age of 21, can amount to an eye watering £194,000. And that is often driven up further by young people living at home for longer. Though teenagers often make it apparent that they can’t bear to live at home, it [...]

A once in a lifetime volunteering opportunity in India, became even more life changing for couple Jane Duffin and Bryan Lewis, following their unexpected Hindu style wedding. Jane, 24, and Bryan, 27, both from Cumbernauld, Scotland, spent four months volunteering with severely disabled children in Varanasi, North India, with not-for-profit charity organisation, Lattitude Global Volunteering. [...]