Category: Features

Do you know what AED stands for? It means ‘automated external defibrillator’, and if you still think you’re not familiar, just picture an episode of Casualty or Holby City, where they use those hand-held gizmos to deliver an electric shock to somebody’s chest and zap their heart back into action.

OK, so there’s no such this as being TOTALLY immune to all illness. But nobody can deny that some people fare better when it comes to the dreaded winter lurgy than others. Do you seem to catch every bug going, while your neighbour/best friend/colleague seems to glide through winter snot and sniffle-free?

Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston may have become a global star as anti-hero Walter White, but he’s managed to stay grounded amid the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. But there was a time when the LA native almost became unhinged, when an ex-girlfriend started stalking him.

He’s been branded one of the trailblazers of new British cooking, but at the heart of Glynn Purnell’s success is his refusal to take himself too seriously. If he’s not cracking jokes and reeling off witty anecdotes, the ‘Yummy Brummie’ is referring to himself as the Roger Federer of Birmingham’s imploding culinary scene.

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander fell in love while filming their new movie, a sweeping romance called The Light Between Oceans. They’re promoting the film together, but the famously private pair are not about to profess their lust for one another in public.

There is never a time when sleep isn’t important. But with the shorter, vitamin D-deprived days, gloomy weather – and the dread that it’s going to drag on for months – at this time of year, solid slumber is more vital than ever. Winter, like all the seasons, has its joys (little beats a stroll… Continue reading 5 steps to dreamy winter sleep

A natural history broadcaster for more than 60 years and one of the world’s most travelled men, there can’t be much Sir David Attenborough hasn’t seen. But one animal has eluded the venerated naturalist throughout his entire career – until now.

Teen talk is so bad it’s sick. As a rough translation, that means it’s great. If you’re a teenager.

You probably love your family, your home, and maybe even your job and the way you look. But do you love your liver?

He may have just announced he’s coming out of retirement for a series of live shows next year, but decades of drumming have taken their toll on Eighties pop master Phil Collins. Meeting the 65-year-old Genesis frontman, one of only three musicians to sell more than 100 million records both in a group and as… Continue reading Phil Collins – take a look at him now