News about Kate Silverton

A BBC newsreader-turned-child therapist has revealed her five tips for travelling with children this summer. Kate Silverton, 53, who you may recognise from her string of BBC presenting gigs, has partnered with lastminute.com to teach parents how best to travel with kids. Her five tips ranged from ditching the smartphones to careful planning. This comes after researchers at the travel site polled the nation's parents and revealed as many as seven in ten feel there are family holiday milestones they'd like to achieve before their children flee the nest. These experiences range from seeing the Northern Lights in Reykjavik, to simply eating a margherita pizza in Naples.

British taxpayers are shelling out an astonishing £292 million a year in disability benefits to people claiming to have ADHD, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Our investigation shows that spending on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) claims has shot up from just £700,000 per year in 2013 - a rise of more than 41,000 per cent. The payments are included in a staggering £5.1 billion of public sector cash given out last year under Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for mental disorders, compared with £34.4 million in 2013, when the scheme was introduced.

Kate Silverton has opened up about her struggles to get pregnant in the hopes of assisting other women with fertility problems. With her ex-Royal Marine husband Mike Heron, the former BBC News presenter, 52, admitted that she went through several rounds of failed IVF before revealing her daughter Clemency Rose, 11, and son Wilbur, eight. She took a step back from her broadcasting career to enroll as a children's counsellor in 2020.