Hospital hand-washing campaign saves 10,000 lives

Tattoo parlours should be rated according to their hygiene standards in the same way as restaurants and takeaways, health experts have said.

Rating system put forward amid warning over risk of HIV and hepatitis infections

Anti-capitalist protesters who had been locked in a legal battle over their right to camp in Nottingham's main square will end their protest this evening after more than six months.

Harry Redknapp yesterday raised the possibility of recalling Tottenham's forgotten man David Bentley to the bench for tomorrow's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea, such is the extent of the squad's injuries.

A specially created Food Safety Squad aims to ensure all comestibles sold during the Games come up to scratch

More public sector workers are to vote on whether to accept the Government's controversial pension reforms.

A young mentally ill man who died in Brixton prison had repeatedly asked to be transferred to hospital for treatment, a coroner's court was told yesterday.

Banknotes can carry more germs than the average toilet seat, with some harbouring E.coli, an expert said today.

A couple were jailed for life today for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.

"I have two doctors," the historian G M Trevelyan once said, "My left leg and my right." They seem to have served him well because he lived to 86, not bad for someone who was born when Disraeli was prime minister. And if Horizon: The Truth About Exercise was to be believed, more of us should be signing up with the Trevelyan practice. Amid the blizzard of acronyms that featured in this account of recent research into exercise was NEAT, which is short for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, pretty much everything you do that isn't sleeping or sitting in a chair. Eulogised by an excitable scientist who looked to be making a pitch for a show of his own, NEAT can make a change to your overall fitness without you really noticing.

They came for Ismail Abu Jabar at 3am, the secret police, the soldiers and an informer in a balaclava. The home was ransacked; there was a ritual beating in front of his terrified, weeping wife and little children and then he was dragged off, never to see his family again.

A new animal disease that causes birth defects and miscarriages in livestock has now been found on 74 farms in England.