Healing hands

JAMES MCINTOSH is on a mission. Having discovered the positive mental health benefits of knitting when going through a period of severe depression, he wants to raise awareness of the benefits of knitting as a form of mindfulness practice - a process he has dubbed ‘knititation’.

James, who hails from Northern Ireland, worked for years as a successful food TV presenter in China and as a cookery book writer. In his mid-30s, however, he was diagnosed with a moderately severe