

Could Frome Lead the Way on a Smartphone-Free Childhood?
The Movement Growing Around the World Picture the scene. A group of teenagers sitting together on a bench in Victoria Park. They’re technically hanging out, but no one is talking. Every head is tilted downwards, thumbs flicking endlessly across glowing screens. For many parents, it’s become one of the defining images of modern childhood. But a fast-growing international movement is asking whether things have gone too far. And here in Somerset, one local campaigner believes Fr

Daisy Steel
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Going far, coming home
Daisy chasing the sunset! If I’m honest, I didn’t book the flights just for the sunsets. Last year, a week after his 24th birthday, we lost our son Ben. There’s no easy way to write that. The world carries on at full volume and you learn, slowly, how to keep putting one foot in front of the other again. Ben & Daisy So part of me wanted to go somewhere far away. Somewhere hot and noisy and completely unfamiliar. Somewhere I wouldn’t turn a corner and half expect to see him. Fi

Daisy Steel
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