When images appeared on television this week of prisoners walking free in Damascus, René was carried back to images of his own.

Prime Minister Mark Brown had asked for Cook Islanders to have their own passports "to recognise our own people" - but New Zealand has said that is not possible unless the Cook Islands becomes fully independent.

Charlie makes her own decorations, and this year she's created a Christmas tree out of a magazine, as well as "stars out of toilet rolls, all that kind of thing".

The union has undergone its own rebrand and, like Louth Social, has dropped "working men" from its title.

Forty years older than Daisy, Suzanne Noble has written about her own sexual adventures and now has a website and podcast called Sex Advice for Seniors.