63 h. ago You could face a nasty fine if you have more than £11,000 in savings: SYLVIA MORRIS reveals the urgent steps you must take

Savers with £11,000 or more in their accounts may need to get in touch with HM Revenue & Customs to avoid paying a nasty fine.

Economics

5 d. ago Try this 30 minute walking technique that is said to be 'better' than doing 10,000 steps a day

This 30 minute walking technique has been scientifcally proven to 'better' your overall health.

Politics

6 d. ago ‘Worst nightmare’: Child takes over plane intercom to sing Moana song during two

After an initial two-hour take-off delay, the Orlando-bound plane spent another two hours circling its destination city

Politics

6 d. ago Walking technique may be 'better' than 10,000 steps and takes half an hour

A fitness coach has shared an alternative 30-minute walking technique that's been scientifically proven to be 'better' for your overall health than just walking 10,000 steps in one day, according to some studies

Politics

7 d. ago 'I'm 66 and walk 10,000 steps a day in these': Clarks shoppers praise £40 boots reduced from £110

"Very comfortable. I walk 10,000 steps a day in these boots and I’m 66-years-old. They will not disappoint"

Economics

8 d. ago New research challenges the benefits of walking 10,000 steps a day

The 10,000-step goal originated from a 1960s Japanese advertising campaign for the world’s first commercial pedometer

Politics

8 d. ago Scraps of land across Dumfries and Galloway to be used to support nature and benefit local communities

Solas for Nature hopes to turn more than 300,000 square metres of local authority land into nature-rich environmental stepping stones.

Politics

1 week ago Stephen Bunting speaks out about how he spent £100,000 World Darts Championship winnings

Stephen Bunting enjoyed a memorable run to the World Darts Championship semi-finals earlier this year and shared how he spent his earnings from the PDC event

Economics

1 week ago Stephen Bunting’s purchase after winning £100,000 at World Darts Championship says it all

Stephen Bunting comfortably lost to Luke Littler in the World Darts Championship semi-finals, but still pocketed £100,000 for his run to the last four at Alexandra Palace in the winter

Economics

2 w. ago Jamie Oliver's sausage and mash pie recipe is the ultimate comfort food

This recipe is so comforting and delicious that it will quickly become your go-to midweek meal. It serves four people and only takes one hour and 30 minutes in total to prepare and cook.

Society

2 w. ago If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri

As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act nowOn Monday, Israel launched an intensive ground offensive named Operation Gideon’s Chariots as part of its plan to cause as much pain and damage as possible to everyone in Gaza. Israel has announced its intent to gain full indefinite control over Gaza, in effect aiming for annexation. This was after the international court of justice found Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and demanded it end its occupation as rapidly as possible and provide full reparations to Palestinians.Israel’s increased violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory also comes after it denied all food, water and supplies from entering Gaza for over 75 days. In March, child acute malnutrition increased by more than 80%. The price of wheat flour has increased by 3,000% since February. The World Food Programme ran out of food for kitchens in Gaza on 25 April and the Wor...

Events

2 w. ago Girl taken to hospital after being hit by car at rush hour on busy road

The incident happened at rush hour and has left an 11-year-old girl in hospital.

Transport

2 w. ago Some guts, no glory: end of my amateur football career brings a painful realisation | Jonathan Liew

As my body begins to show undeniable signs of decay, it’s time to reflect on a profoundly underwhelming sporting lifeThere are the nights when the 10-minute walk to the tube station takes half an hour. There are the crossbow bolts of knee pain at 3am. There are the evenings when you convince yourself the recycling doesn’t actually need to be taken out tonight. We can wait a couple of days, squash it down a bit, crush that box flat. And secretly, it’s because you can’t handle the stairs.There are the mornings when the bus is coming and the kids shout “Come on!” and start running, but you can’t, you just can’t, and you don’t know how to tell them. There is the very particular indignity of the 39-year-old man crossing the road in socks because blisters and swellings have rendered his boots useless. There are the fitness fads – hot yoga, reformer pilates, cold plunge – adopted at great expense and with the sole purpose of pushing back oblivion, of rendering the intolerable fleetingly to...

Sport

2 w. ago Young British woman held on drug charges in Sri Lanka could be linked to Culley case

Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlierWithin a day of Bella May Culley being arrested at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the same fate met another Briton 3,000 miles away.As Charlotte May Lee stepped off her flight at Bandaranaike International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka last Monday, the 21-year-old former cabin attendant was arrested for an alleged attempt to bring in £1.2m worth of a synthetic cannabis strain known as kush in her two suitcases. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Walking 9,000 steps a day can lower the risk of 13 cancers, study finds

Any physical activity is good for you. But walking is an easy way to help reduce risk

Events

2 w. ago Doctors join chorus of opposition to assisted dying law with warning over 'concerning deficiencies' in legislation as it returns to Commons

MPs will take part in a five-hour session today during which various amendments to  the law will be debated and voted on.

Events

3 w. ago Experts pinpoint number of daily steps that can prevent 13 types of cancer

Striding 10,000 steps a day has long been lauded as one of the best ways to keep us in peak health. But you don't need this many to lower your chances of developing up to 13 types of cancer.

Science

3 w. ago Tube network descends into chaos as major power outage takes down four lines ahead of rush hour

No trains were running on the entire Bakerloo or Waterloo & City lines this afternoon, while the Jubilee and Northern were both part-suspended due to the major power failure in London.

Events

3 w. ago ‘My body deserves pleasure’: is Virgin Island the most awkward TV sexperiment ever?

Twelve virgins, one island and a team of sex therapists who encourage participants to pleasure them Channel 4’s new show is eye-popping TV. The stars talk fruity games, panic attacks and intimacySex seems to be everywhere – in TV and films, the quagmire of porn online – but young people are increasingly not getting it in real life. The Next Steps longitudinal study following more than 16,000 people, by University College London, found that one in eight 26-year-olds still hadn’t had sex.Hence Channel 4’s new show, Virgin Island, which depicts a two-week “radical retreat” led by sexologists Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman and a team of experts. The 12 participants are all virgins, and their varied issues around physical intimacy are explored via therapies that include sex coaches stripping naked and encouraging participants to pleasure them. The hope being that sex might be something they get to experience in the next fortnight. Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago Fury as Barcelona cafe imposes 'table hogger' charge for tourists who outstay their welcome including doubled price for lingering more than an hour over your coffee

Bar Perfetto has clamped down on dilly-dallying tourists and has even doubled the price of coffee for those who take more than an hour to finish their drink.

Politics