Mary Contini column: It is time to challenge ultra-processed foods
WHETHER your political dreams have come true or been depressingly dashed, the fact of the matter is that we have a new ‘boss’ for the next five years.
Mary Contini column: Was Euros depression a 'dry run' for election?
THE boys from the Scotland squad, the Tartan Army, indeed the whole country, woke up to a feeling of disappointment and apathy.
We are lucky to have the privilege to vote
OUR TV schedules and newspapers are full of it. Social media and online debates are almost too hot to handle. Political manoeuvring is in full swing, like a chess competition on speed.
Mary Contini column: Young people deserve respect
HOW on earth can a political party, six weeks away from a general election, throw into the quagmire of debate a conscription grenade?
Mary Contini's childhood Cockenzie memories as she remembers mum Gertrude Di Ciacca
MY FAVOURITE walk is from Cockenzie Harbour towards the harbour at Port Seton.
Mary Contini column: They’re moving the goalposts!
AS KIDS, playing footie in the park, if we were on the winning side we learned to watch out for our opponents’ signature tactic: move the goalposts.
Mary Contini column: Wonderful woods worth a visit
WHEN my elder daughter was a toddler, her aunty Betty retrieved a pip from an apple she was eating and made a game of planting it in a jam-jar.
Mary Contini column: Privacy invaded on every level
I LOVE searching through our old photograph albums – faces of loved ones, proud and smiling, a record of past lives, evoking insights into family history and heritage.
Mary Contini column: A special, but expensive, town
WHEN we were kids, although we lived in Cockenzie, we always went on holiday to North Berwick.
Mary Contini column: Let’s get back to basics and cook
THERE is an exciting new exhibition opening in Cockenzie House and Gardens this weekend.
