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It’s got to be one of the most enduring and celebrated dance partnerships of recent time. Their relationship has outlasted most marriages and now to markÌý their fortieth year of working together, ice danceÌýÌý champions Torvill and Dean have co-written aÌý secondÌýÌýÌý autobiography ‘Our Life On Ice’. Jayne Torvill talks to Jenni about her career and the challenge of balancing the professional and personal partnerships in her life and what it’s like to have more than one ‘other half’.Ìý

‘Our Life On Ice The Autobiography’ Ìýis published by Simon & Schuster , the UK TourÌý ‘In Conversation with Torvill & Dean’ starts on 26 November

Should you ask your children to help with household chores or has asking for help to hang out the washing, stack the dishwasher or lay the table just led to family rows and resentment? Jenni hears from one family as they implement ‘cleaning hour’ and speaks to Telegraph columnist about what jobs her son and two daughters are willing to do and from the charity Family Action.

Ten years ago we reported on the house in Manchester where Elizabeth Gaskell lived - and where she wrote most of her novels.Ìý For many years it was used as a centre for overseas students at the university, but in 2004 the Manchester Historic Buildings Trust acquired it and now - after a decade of renovation - they’ve opened it to the public.ÌýÌýJudy Merry has been back to the house with Janet Allan from the Trust and Marion Barter who’s a buildings historian - to see how the building has changed.

The UK government is investing £35 million into a new Africa-led movement to end Female Genital Mutilation in one generation. The funding will run until 2019 and represents the largest investment by any government ever into tackling FGM. ÌýThe campaign called, ‘is launched in Nairobi in Kenya today. Its focus is on ten African countries where it aims to ÌýÌýinstigateÌýÌý advocacy initiatives which will drive social and behavioural change. ÌýThirty million girls across Africa are estimated to be at risk of FGM over the next decade. ÌýLynne Featherstone, Minister for International Development, joins Jenni to explain how the money will be used and why she believes it will make a difference.

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