Nicola Gill
Journalist, copywriter, editor, content consultant.
CAN A BACK MASSAGE HEAL YOUR EMOTIONAL PAIN?
14th December 2017
28 million people in the UK suffer from chronic pain, and women are much more likely to be affected by back pain than men.
ISLAND LIFE
February 2015
Forget the chills of winter and look forward to a sun-drenched Caribbean destination that can still delight and surprise you.
I GATECRASHED BLIND DATE...
17th June 2017
As the original TV dating show returns tonight, Nicola Gill relives the moment Cilla outed her as an undercover reporter.
SILENCE
27th November 2016
The world has never been louder and it's affecting our health. Is it time to turn down the volume?
GO,TIGER
10th July 2016
When Nicola Gill hit the menopause aged 45, she refused to accept her flagging libido. Testosterone was the answer, but getting her hands on it was a case of delayed gratification.
COULD YOUR NEXT CAREER BE AS A CHIMNEY SWEEP?
18th July 2016
Nicola Gill meets one man who's part of a growing trend of white collar workers opting to become artisan labourers.
ONLY ABOUT HALF THE MUMS WHO COME THROUGH MY DOOR LEAVE WITH THEIR BABY
June 25th 2016
Yvette Collier has been looking after newborns for 13 years. She takes in high-risk mums and their babies for an intensive 12 weeks to assess whether they can be good parents. The stakes are high - sometimes the baby is taken away, sometimes the mother walks away...
WE ARE INTERSEX
December 12 2015
They look female, feel like women and have relationships with men – but their chromosones are male. Let down by the medical profession, their lives have been shrouded in shame and secrecy. That’s all about to change.
I’M NOT FIGHTING MYSELF ANY MORE
22nd August 2015
Rebecca Root is about to become the first transgender star of Boy Meets Girl, a British television show. She talks about changing perceptions, feeling sexy – and why she wishes she had the nerve of Caitlyn Jenner.
FAMILIES BLOWN APART
November 22nd 2015
Lawyers call it the ‘nuclear option’ - when a vengeful adult falsely claims that a former spouse of their new partner has sexually abused their children. The secrecy of family courts plays into the hands of accusers, and victims’ lives are ruined.
TURNING POINT
14th June 2015
With Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair and the BBC commissioning its first sitcom starring a transgender actress, are we seeing a social revolution?
SHARED VALUES: HELEN PANKHURST
November 2015
Granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst and great granddaughter of Emmeline, Helen is a senior advisor to development organization Care International.
LUST-PLUS LIASONS
May 2015
The hit TV series The Affair highlights the emotional fallout from infidelity, but for many women such flings are empowering passion pick-me-ups.
THE MAGIC & MYSTERY OF SNOWFLAKES
January 2016
They're lovely to the naked eye but close up, snowflakes have an amazingly complex beauty and there's more to them than you might imagine, as Nicola Gill discovers.
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
July 2016
There's so much more to Morocco than Marrakech. Head south to the dramatic Ouirgane region of the Atlas Mountains to explore astonishing scenery and the unique Berber culture, suggests Nicola Gill.
FAKING IT
June 2015
How innocent are bargain knock-off goods? Nicola Gill
investigates what it really means when you buy counterfeit goods...