Category: Features

Emma Stone’s just spilt coffee on the lush carpet of the hotel suite. It’s a moment reminiscent of a scene in La La Land, where her character, aspiring actress Mia, is rushing from her job as a barista to make an audition and ends up with coffee all down her front. It’s this goofiness, both… Continue reading 'La La Land is intoxicating' says Emma Stone

Clean Eating Alice (real name Alice Liveing) is the self-transformed health blogger determined to dispel the ‘diet myths’ that drag us down. She’s taken Instagram by storm with her accessible take on healthy living, amassing nearly half a million followers in just a few short years.

No doubt bird feeders and baths will be filled by many of us in the run-up to the annual Big Garden Birdwatch, the world’s largest garden wildlife survey, which this year takes place from January 28-30. Yet there are other ways to attract birds to your garden in the long term if you plant species… Continue reading Planting for birds

Dropping children off at the school gates is as much contact as some parents get with their child’s education. But parental participation in education has a direct impact on how well children do at school, whether that be primary or secondary. And that’s why PTA UK, the charity which supports parent teacher associations (PTA) nationwide,… Continue reading Boost your child's learning, the PTA way

Full-fat milk and cheese aren’t the foods you’d normally associate with weight loss – but they might not be as bad for your figure, or health, as you think. For while they do contain saturated fat, dairy experts suggest that fats from milk may not be quite the dietary demons other saturated fats are thought… Continue reading Milking it – cutting out fats doesn't mean no dairy

1. Penetrating damp happens when there’s a problem with the fabric of the building. While the damp usually moves horizontally from the outside in, it can appear on ceilings (see below) as well as walls. Defective or missing flashing on the roof, defective or blocked guttering, defective pointing and brickwork, and cracked or missing render… Continue reading 5 tips for dealing with damp

On Sunday, BBC One aired a Holocaust Memorial edition of Antiques Roadshow – and host Fiona Bruce insists it was anything but dispiriting. “People may have thought, ‘Do I want to watch something about Holocaust survivors, wouldn’t that be depressing?’ But actually, it’s so far from depressing,” says the 52-year-old, who took up the Roadshow… Continue reading Roadshow's most priceless collection yet

Most parents want their children to eat healthily but many, it seems, aren’t quite sure what that means. So although 84% of parents think their child’s breakfast, for example, is healthy, the reality is that children consume at least half the recommended daily sugar intake at breakfast, when many eat and drink foodstuffs containing a… Continue reading Get smart about healthy eating with your kids

Lee Mack has one big unfilled ambition, and it’s not what you’d expect. “I desperately want to be in Doctor Who!” declares the 48-year-old. “I’ll take a 30-second walk-on part.