Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent. I'm Michelle Hussein.

In this edition, The Formative Experience of Working on a Local Paper

in an

age when few of them have a secure future.

Whatever became of the shareholder revolt on executive pay.

In Budget Week, an influential commentator gives us his take on the political climate and why Prince Harry has a chance to

snap up the Devon pub which once caught his eye.

First the continuing story of one of our correspondence as shared earlier this year.

Carly Appleby of BBC Radio Gloucestershire told us of the searing experience of being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.

She's in her 30s and the mother of a young child.

Everything in her life changed from the moment of her diagnosis, and now after six grueling

cycles of chemotherapy, she awaits a moment of truth in the operating theatre.

I don't recognize myself in the operating theatre.

I don't recognize myself in the mirror. Bloated from steroids, I have neither eyelashes nor eyebrows, and I'm bald.

I look enviously at my husband's head and say I can't wait to have as much hair as you.

We both laugh.

He doesn't have much but more than me.

I get some weeks to recover from the chemotherapy before surgery, a mastectomy

and auxiliary node clearance from under my arm. On the day I feel vulnerable about being operated

on with no hair. I've been

been wearing headscarves on my wig, which you may all remember we call Betty,

but I must do without them for my surgery.

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