Ellee Seymour

I had no idea about burials laws until coming across Wendii Miller, a Cambridge graduate, who carried out her own DIY burial for her 98-year-old mother Doris, even digging the grave after collecting her corpse from Grimsby Hospital mortuary and driving her mother's remains back to a burial...

I read that Woman's Hour presenter Jenni Murray had joined Weight Watchers in her latest attempt to fight the flab, and thought how great it would be if she could join me for a week at Champneys boot camp to shed a few more...

While it is admirable for the House of Lords Constitution Committee to state that we need more women judges in the UK as fewer than one in four is female, it also needs to put its own House in order to improve its representation of women.

The medicinal herbal remedy industry is at risk in Europe following the introduction of new EU laws a year ago, according to Greer Deal, Director of Global Regulatory Services.

She tells me that the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive is being flouted by some companies to...

The British life science industry is thwarted by lack of investment with a slow regulatory process which is impeding its development, said Sir Christopher Evans, the biotech king who is regarded as one of Europe's leading medical science entrepreneurs, if not the world, and created the now famous Cambridge cluster...

I was shocked to discover the painful process that some families have to endure when appealing against their local education authority's special educational needs provision for their vulnerable child.

According to Janet O'Keefe, a speech and language therapist who attends many tribunals as an expert witness,...

Cambridge is to trial the very latest sensory telecare technology which will enable our elderly population to live independently at home by detecting any change in their regular routine which might cause alarm; it has an automated operation system which will alert family or friends. The scheme also includes a...

I bumped into Chris Curry recently, a Cambridge legend and visionary innovator who, along with Hermann Hauser, founded Acorn Computers in 1978, an era which still holds a fascination for many. 

Acorn dominated the Cambridge technology scene in the 1980s and...

Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal and producer of the terrific Teslar electric car, is also the brains behind SpaceX, the world's fastest-growing space launch services provider with more than 40 space missions under its belt, including a £1.6 billion deal from NASA to resupply...

My heart bleeds for families who have to deal with the Ministry of Justice, if my experience is anything to go by.

I have tried to submit paperwork to them on three occasions, and each time it has been returned to me with a query. Why can't they...

The next general election could see quotas for women candidates introduced in the Republic of Ireland - and political parties have been warned they could lose half of their state funding if they fail to comply.

The clause is included in the Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011,...

I visited my family in Wisbech at the weekend - the very same town which "the Baltic Mafia is terrorising" - according to this sensational report in Saturday's Daily Mail. Driving through the town, I passed a coach with a Lithuanian number plate parked outside a...

Cannabis, a class-B drug available on prescription as a medicinal remedy for multiple sclerosis patients, could also be used to target cancer pain, epilepsy, rheumatoid arthritis and even schizophrenia if trials demonstrate its effectiveness.

What once seemed a controversial idea has now won widespread approval as...

The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, has vowed to bypass a European Court of Justice ruling that bans patents on embryonic stem cells by turning to the United States or India instead.

There are 26 laboratories in Cambridge using stem...

Sitting in the Cambridge University lecture theatre listening spellbound to the synthesised voice of Prof Stephen Hawking, pre-recorded for his 70th birthday symposium which he was too poorly to attend in person, I was struck by two thoughts:

1. The warmth and humour of his personality...

I feel extremely privileged to be able to attend a symposium to mark the 70th birthday of physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, a brilliant cosmologist acclaimed globally whose life has surpassed medical expectations.

The remarkable Prof Hawking was told in 1963 that he had just months...

It's the best Christmas news for any child languishing in care and waiting to be placed with loving, adoptive parents - the announcement yesterday that the government is replacing its crippling bureaucratic process with a new system. Proposals include forming an expert panel to develop a new system and...

I am struck by the generous selflessness of bereaved families who genuinely do not want others to suffer like them after losing loved ones -  especially from deaths which they believe were preventable.

They have offered to provide case studies about their traumatic experiences, which is crucial when highlighting the importance...

Many charities in the UK are £42 million richer thanks to the auctioneering skills of Jeffrey Archer.

Yesterday he shared his tips with an audience keen to learn how to get money from the rich. In the last 30 years, Jeffrey's "hobby" has become auctioneering, and...

The Cambridge Phenomenon is 50 years old and a gripping story which constantly fascinates.

To mark this incredible milestone, which saw the creation of home computers, pocket calculators, bluetooth - as well as the technology behind round teabags - its history is being told in a new book,...