Caravans, cruises and concrete mixers: How the Tesco workers who scooped £18.2 million in the lottery splashed their cash

Caravans, concrete mixers and cruises. How the Tesco workers who scooped £18.2 million, splashed their [...]

Does obesity go hand in hand with trauma? How one man lost 12st in one year, just by talking about his feelings

For years, we’ve been told that being overweight is a failure of willpower. The most likely scenario for people [...]

Could you be friends with your burglar? How two men have struck up an unlikely friendship after one broke in and brutally attacked the other

They greet each other with an affectionate bear hug whenever they meet — a gesture which demonstrates the strong [...]

My feminist academic mum is my biggest fan, says Made in Chelsea star Caggie (…she just wishes the show was a little less shallow)

At first glance, Made In Chelsea star Catherine ‘Caggie’ Dunlop has the perfect profile for the reality TV show [...]

From spoilt British teen to Amish girl: How living with America’s strictest Christian sect changed a party-mad 18 year old

No Facebook, no mobile phone, no make-up and no parties. It sounds like the definition of teenage [...]

The science behind our amazing twins – one black, one white

It’s no longer as rare as it looks... and could spell the end of many debilitating hereditary [...]

In front of judges in an old swimsuit, I knew my beauty contest was my ticket out of poverty

As Angela Chapman nervously walked down the catwalk of her very first beauty pageant, Miss Yorkshire TV, wearing [...]

When the IED exploded I shouted ‘Anyone hurt?’ Then I looked at my legs

When the IED exploded I shouted: 'Anyone hurt?' Then I looked at my legs.   Read the original article

Banned Ken Loach charity documentary to be shown after 42 years

A banned Ken Loach film, which exposed charity Save The Children Fund as being bigoted and abusive, is to be shown [...]

Booze destroyed Kiera’s life before she was born – then killed her mum

Kiera Roebuck is seven, but ­alcohol has already destroyed her life. In fact, it ruined almost every chance she [...]

‘We could have spent our money on castles … but adopting NINE troubled children is so much more fun’

As a hard-working partner in a top-ranking firm of chartered accountants, Jim Clifford earns a six-figure salary, [...]

Child poverty in Britain

In a list of 22 European ­countries about child poverty, the UK is number 18. Only Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and [...]

The Big C: Has TV broken its last taboo?

Few of us know how we’d react if we were told we had terminal cancer. Would we become heroic or self-obsessed, [...]