6 h. ago Lost your voice and can't stop coughing? You might have adenovirus, a little known winter bug that is easy to catch... but hard to shift

With flu still causing chaos across the UK, it's easy to assume that any spluttering or sore throat is down to that... but it's not the only virus making Britons sick.

Politics

34 h. ago What is norovirus? Symptoms you need to know as NHS critical incidents declared

Cases of norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, are adding further strain on the NHS as it struggles to keep up with the demand

Science

5 d. ago NHS shares ‘best remedy’ for stomach bugs as people urged to follow 48 hour rule

Norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug, can be 'unpleasant' but is rarely serious

Politics

6 d. ago Radical change to criminal trials 'will stop victims suffering'

New Victims' Commissioner Claire Waxman warned that victims’ voices must not be lost in a fierce debate between lawyers and politicians over cutting jury trials

Events

2 w. ago Songs about love, poverty and swimming in Bacardi lemon: Dutch ‘levenslied’ captures a new generation

The Netherlands’ guttersnipe answer to French chanson and German schlager is as popular as ever – but has it lost its roots as the defiant voice of the working class? Our writer sways along at the Muziekfeest van het Jaar to find out‘Uw doet wat, precies, meneer?’ My chic twentysomething hairdresser throws me a puzzled look: “You’re doing what, exactly, sir?” I am not behaving like an Englishman. I have just told her that I have bought tickets for the Muziekfeest van het Jaar (Music of the Year festival) in Amsterdam’s cavernous Ziggo Dome: a two-night extravaganza that is being recorded to be broadcast on New Year’s Eve as a kind of Dutch equivalent to Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, all dedicated to the brassy, sentimental, often untranslatable and still monumentally popular Dutch pop known as levenslied.“Levenslied” roughly translates as “songs about life”, and although popular throughout the land, especially in North Brabant, it is commonly associated with Amsterdam, and specificall...

Politics

3 w. ago Anyone with 3 key symptoms told to 'stay home' as warning issued over 'unpleasant' virus

Cases of norovirus - the 'winter vomiting bug' - are rising in England

Events