Welcome back. It was a futuristic vision of efficiency or in our value in nightmare depending on your point of view. The government had been planning two huge computer databases, one to store all of our personal identity information, / the other our...
The increase in the obesity could lead to as many as 1500 more cancers a year in Britain by the year 2010. Cancer Research UK which carried out the survey claims that too few people are aware of the link between excess weight and the risk of developi...
Who's the odd one out of these four: Is it the footballer Wayne Rooney, The cricketer Andrew Flintoff, The Olympic Gold medal heptathlete Denise Lewis? Or the Conservative MP and legendary launching Nicholas Soames. It is, of course, Nicholas Soames,...
(Healthy food)are proving so unpopular in some parts of the country. There is a warning that some catering services are in danger of collapse. 60 percent of English secondary schools who responded to a BBC survey reported a fall in the number of pupi...
If he kept his son in the village, he would have buried him, so says Madonna, defending her decision to adopt a baby from Malawi. The pop star ended her silence today with the soft sofa option, an interview on the Oprah Winfrey show. Speaking in a li...
Downing Street will receive a special delivery from postmasters this afternoon, the country's biggest ever petition in modern times. Four million people have backed a campaign, urging the government to save Britain's post offices. More than four thou...
Last Tuesday, The Ten O'Clock News looked at serious allegations made in the BBC's Panorama program about the Football Premiership . Three football agents claimed the Bolton manager Sam Allardyce has taken illegal payments, he's firmly denied the cla...
British children are among the highest users of tobacco, alcohol and drugs in Europe, but the current approach to teaching them about the dangers is not working. That's the view of the government's own advisors, who now say drugs and alcohol educatio...
All he has to do is be back on British soil, and the political pace quickens. In the prime minister's case though it's necessarily to a sprint to keep the demons at bay. Certainly the bank holiday weekend looks to be anything but time-off for Mr. Bla...
Now more than half a million teenagers received their GCSE exam results this morning and for many it was very good news. Nearly one in five grades awarded were either As or A-stars. That s a rise of 0.7% on last year. Ever-increasing performance has...
