I didn’t get to look up the news of yesterday, like I was planning on doing. I ended up heading to Colchester for my friend’s birthday, playing drinking games, and sleeping on someone’s sofa. It was like being a student all over again. But yes, it means I’ve had a look through Friday’s news stories today instead – and there are quite a few. And quite a few of them are very interesting, too.

There is a theme to two of the more interesting pieces. Mostly because the stories that more immediately struck me were of a similar theme, although the two of them are still very different. The theme that they share, though, is motherhood: they are both slices of what makes the bond between mother and child unique and magical.

Firstly, if your heart is in need of warming, there is a mother here who has woken from a coma after hearing her baby’s voice. Quite moving, no? But then, what about this: a newborn baby fell through the toilet of a train, landed on the tracks, and survived. The mother promptly jumped out of the window (people thought that she was committing suicide, and I suppose that would be my initial reaction, too), but it later turned out that she had pulled a James Bond move and rescued her baby.

On one hand, we have the power of voice; the power of that connection between mother and child. And on the other, that connection, that bond, is demonstrated in incredible fashion. Perhaps they should consider moving mother’s day?