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What if there were a simple cure for some of life's most common afflictions, such as eczema, asthma, or hay fever? Something that's natural, relatively inexpensive and that most people drink every single day. Now imagine this miracle salvation, which has sustained generations of children on farms across Britain, is at best tricky to source, and at worst illegal.

The television presenter and professional bikini-wearer Myleene Klass found out that serving breast milk to friends and family has a nasty side effect – that everyone in the media (yes, that includes me) rears up and starts banging on about it.

Most pregnant women are deficient in iodine, a mineral vital for cognitive development

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled his latest work, a map of China made from baby formula tins, in response to fears surrounding milk safety in China.

In further evidence of the udder madness sweeping a food industry obsessed with innovation, cereal milk is becoming a thing. That is cereal-flavoured milk for those without access to a spoon or teeth.

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Charlotte Philby meets women moving into farming to improve their work-life balance – despite the terrible weather

There is a difference between tyrants with a consistent record of mass murder and democratically elected politicians

Without wishing to give our enemies any ideas, it would be pretty easy to see off the denizens of the Trending desk. All you’d need to do is send us something reasonably tasty (and chock-full of poison), and we’d fall upon it like starving rats. Recently, a box of truffles arrived as a thank-you for one writer, and the pack attacked.

The Milk Race, once a familiar summer staple of Britain’s sporting calendar, is to make a return after 20 years.

This fine selection of chocolate treats will leave you spoilt for choice, whether you're planning to spend £5 or £50

Whether you're hankering for some Stinking Bishop or partial to a slice of Cornish Yarg, home-grown varieties are causing a stink...

The beverages giant Coca-Cola is testing the world's first drinking cups made from recycled plastic water bottles ahead of a potential launch of the branded products next year.