The Latest Breaking News from May

While many of us will remember the last year as a time when superstar authors published highly anticipated follow-ups — think Michelle Obama, Jennifer Egan and Hanya Yanagihara — it was also a banner year for emerging voices.

Gordon Palmer, 53, thinks looking after his mother, May, 89, caused him to stress eat and he feared he could become too unhealthy to look after her

Get it? Baker. May. Field.

And the honey chicken has always been the best seller.

After a lifetime of physical and psychological turmoil, Dorothy Herson experienced severe PTSD after falling through the floorboards of an abandoned asylum. Then unexpected salvation arrived in the form of raving, with pulsing beats and pleasure hormones granting her newfound clarity

Mothman, Bigfoot and Little Green Men: the mysterious cryptids of the Ohio Valley

Our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved one

The young runners smashed it as hundreds took part in the children's races, with many raising money for great causes

Former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Theresa May attended state schools.