Karen Edwards

Snorkelling and swimming around the Great Barrier Reef is an experience I'll never, ever forget. Yes, it took me the best part of three days to get there and hell, yeah, it didn't come cheap - but my goodness, it was worth it...

My...

For years, dreamy Hawaii was known as that heavenly place far, far away where pretty girls danced in coconut shells and grass skirts, superstars sipped cocktails on white sandy beaches, Jurassic Park-esq creatures roamed in the wild and loved-up honeymooners spent thousands of their hard-earned pounds on their first few...

Some 1.76 million people saw Take That perform live on the Progress Live tour earlier this summer. A further 11 million plus tune in to see Gary Barlow deliver his verdict on The X Factor every Saturday and Sunday night. But last night the Take That front-man brought The Royal...

Hm, is there such a thing as being 'too nice'? It's a tricky question. But I'm inclined to say a big, fat 'no'. Being nice is a very positive (although, granted, not desperately interesting) quality that, quite frankly, a lot more of us could do with possessing. Being 'too nice'...

We've all been there at some stage, haven't we? You're desperately in need of a holiday (a week in Kos or maybe something more exotic) but your partner/mates are far too busy with their hectic work lives. So what do you do? Wait until someone's free (but it seems like...

Ah, singledom. It's a strange place to be. Of course, when you're 19, 21 or even 26, there's nothing better than being all footloose and fancy free (as my aunt would put it). You want to be out with your friends every night and you want to be meeting dark,...

The X Factor, eh? It's only been on our screens for six weeks but by goodness do people bang on about it. Whether you're a fan or not, you'll probably know by now that Simon Cowell is no longer on the judging panel. Instead it's Gary Barlow - the new...