Thank God It's Toby Highlights

We have always been particular about keeping our homes warm - how many can recall a parent sarcastically asking, "do we live in a barn?" when leaving a door wide open? Now, as energy bills continue to rise, and with the cold months rolling in, many will channel their frugal fathers and mindful mothers to keep their homes warm and bills low. In fact, 69% admit to being concerned about keeping their...

Robert L Thaggard grew up in San Antonio, Texas and spent nineteen years in Austin attending The University of Texas at Austin for two undergraduate degrees: a BS in advertising and a BA in German. He is a retired banking executive and a published short story author. The Thinker is his debut novel. He is presently working on his third master’s at Southern Methodist University in dispute resolution...

Kenneth M Terry's children's book 'Percy's Dream' is a delightful and beautifully illustrated story of a leaf named Percy; whose view of the sky is blocked by the other leaves on the tree above him. At night his dreams are about being on top of a tree and seeing the sky. As time passes, Percy stays steadfast to hope and determination that he will one day get a glimpse of the sky, he so longs to se...

Maredith Ryan lives in the Nashville, Tennessee area. She is a middle school English teacher and enjoys spending time with family and friends, as well as staying consistently involved in athletics. She coaches basketball with both the middle school she teaches at and her alma mater, Welch College. Ryan’s self-care includes slow Saturday mornings with coffee, time spent in activity, and doing puzzl...

Surprisingly, 18-24-year-olds have, on average, a lower outstanding balance of £199 on buy now, pay later (BNPL) products than their elders (compared with £224 for Gen X). 55% of Gen Z believe they are seen by older generations as being “financially irresponsible”, and that there is a lack of understanding about how expensive it is to live these days (51%). However, although many are in the early...

Legendary singer P.P. Arnold returns with the sensational festive tune ‘It Won’t Be Christmas Without You’, an instant classic for the holiday season produced by Mark Taylor & Patrick Mascall for Metrophonic Production Ltd. Living legend and queen of soul Pat ‘P.P.’ Arnold needs no introduction, having accumulated a lifetime of show-stopping performances in the studio and on stage, whether thr...

With joyful pictures and words, Welcome To Happy Town helps kids (and adults) understand that being kind to ourselves and others feels good. As you read this book with your children, or as they read it themselves, they will become more aware of their own and other people's individual specialness. The Happy Town series offers simple, fun activities that invite children to pay closer atten...

The Mental State swept the Awards at The Catalina Film Festival this weekend, taking home the Best U.S. Feature Film, Best Director and Best Lead Male Actor awards. Based on the play,  The Mental State  tells the story of a high school senior from rural Kentucky suffering from a mental health crisis and the lack of community resources his family has to help him. The film touches on schoo...

Dr Helen Lawal is a Portfolio GP and works in the NHS for OneMedical Group as the Lead GP for Lifestyle Medicine. Alongside this, she works as a Health Coach in a private wellness centre helping men and women lose weight and create healthy lifestyle habits. She also has 3 years experience of working in a Sexual Health and Contraception clinic. Highlights from Toby's Friday afternoon show...

Patti Boulaye is a singer, author, actress, public speaker, lecturer, painter, show producer, wife, proud mother of two children and grandmother to a cherished grandson and granddaughter.   In January 2016 Patti was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of The British Empire) in Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday Honours List for her charity work in the UK & Sub-Saharan Africa...

Dr Martin Patrick was born in London. His education includes BA Hons, Masters, PGCHE and PhD. He has written five plays, including Where To Now, which won him the London Playwright’s Co-op 1988 Best New Playwright Award. His third play, Give It Up Mum , was selected by The Independent Newspaper for the Second Phase prize. He was Professor in Drama, Film and Cultural Studies. In the 1990s Martin pe...

Jason Fox often referred to by his nickname 'Foxy' is a television presenter, adventurer and former British soldier. He is best known as the longest-serving directing staff on the popular Channel 4 television series  SAS: Who Dares Wins , and the presenter of the investigative documentary series  Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos . Fox joined the Royal Marin...

Money-saving items such as heated blankets, thermal underwear and subscriptions to streaming services like Netflix are high on the list of things shoppers say they’ll be targeting in the pre-Christmas sales.   As the soaring cost-of-living forces consumers to tighten their belts, a new study by Vodafone suggests 1 in 4 (24%) cash-strapped shoppers in the run-up to Christmas intend to snap up...

Donald G. James is the author of "Manners will take you where brains and money won't: Wisdom from Momma and 35 years at NASA." (Feb. 2021). Inspired by the overwhelming reaction to the 1986 space shuttle Challenger tragedy, Donald James decided to make his career at NASA, retiring in 2017. Donald developed an early interest in aviation and international affairs due to his frequent travels with his...

Son of American TV mom, Marion Ross (Happy Days/Gilmore Girls/Brooklyn Bridge), Jim Meskimen has become THE actor that Hollywood is turning, to appear as historic or recognizable characters, currently playing Senator Edward Gurney (opposite Julia Roberts and Sean Penn) in GASLIT and, just announced, portraying Phil Donahue in WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES&nbs...

This is the story of three men encountering their own personal demons, and how they ultimately collide on one nondescript Labor Day afternoon. There is Roger Cisneros, who is a registered sex offender, and who wants to "get even" by kidnapping a child in a small town. There is Arthur, a local idiot who has just gone through a divorce and is severely misunderstood and so has suicidal thoughts. Fina...

Edmund Schiavoni's first-rate, "page-turning" novel 'Pathway To Glory' unfolds when the protagonist, Paul Stevens, attempts to take over the giant corporation that he is the chief financial executive of by boldly initiating a proxy contest against its incumbent management. This plot teems with high adventure, political intrigue, and the avariciousness that the machinations of Wall Street and lust...

Award-winning intuitive composer, multi-instrumentalist, and cosmic polymath Charleene Closshey first appeared on stage at the age of 2 — the same year she began studying piano and reading music scores.  Fusing her decades of classical Western music training with Eastern vibrational sciences, Charleene intuitively scores music tuned to specific hertz frequencies. Much of her music c...

Accomplished songwriter and film producer Kurt Rosenberg has been composing Scottish/Irish Music for over 25 years. Today, he is well on track to achieving his dreams of collaborating with some of the world’s finest, as well as partnering with the theatre industry to help produce his musicals. Rosenberg’s music encompasses various genres of Celtic, Folk, Pop, 40’s Ballroom to 50’s Jazz and Film. “...

Thaimko Conteh is an actor and former price fighter. He started his acting career with his 35min short film “The Game is on” which he also wrote, produced and directed. “The Game is on” was selected by several film fests. Conteh gathered experience by starring in music videos and shorts. He is a self-educated lateral entrant in the film industry but also trained with professional acting coaches su...

68% of children aged 8 – 16 do not understand how taxes work, 74% do not understand pensions and 41% mortgages 43% want to know more about mortgages 38% about taxes, and 36% about the economy – with 55% about how to run your own business 82% have already practised saving with their pocket money A large number of children aged 8 – 16 do not understand how taxes work (68%), pensions (74%) and mortga...

George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam AKA Boy Meets Girl have given 'How WIll I Know' a bubbly new twist in celebration of Whitney Houston's incredible career - a story that is being told in the forthcoming biopic 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' - released globally in cinemas on 21 December.  This brand new mix will be available as one of the bonus tracks on the vinyl release of the 2021 EP 'Five'...

Neil Stevenson's book 'The Email From God' was inspired by a growing passion and concern throughout his life about how unsustainable humans are, and how much damage we are doing to the natural world. Many non-fiction books have been written on the subject, but never a novel that comprehensively addresses all of the issues. Neil became particularly concerned, that even with climate conferences and...

Born in Omaha, Paul Stephenson spent his youth growing up in Wyoming, his adolescence in the Colorado Rockies and his young adulthood pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree at Luther College. He started his professional life as a paralegal which lead him into government work where he ran the nationally recognized Colorado judicial collection investigator program. He has also been recognized as a certified...

You’ve heard of teabags, T-shirts and T-rex….but have you heard of T Levels? The first T Levels were launched in 2020 - they are two-year courses taken after GCSEs, which combine classroom learning with an industry placement and broadly equate to three A Levels. T Levels provide an important route into engineering and tech careers. They offer young people an introduction to the sector they’re inte...