Britain would need to put a 20 per cent "fat tax" on unhealthy food and drink to improve the numbers of people suffering diet-related conditions such as obesity and heart disease, medical experts warn.
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Hitler postcard found at roadshow
Wednesday 02 May 2012
Adolf Hitler was surprisingly keen to return to the front line after being injured in the First World War, a recently-discovered postcard suggests.
Ancient Vatican texts going online
Thursday 12 April 2012
Oxford University and the Vatican are joining forces to make ancient texts available for free online.
Height linked to ovarian cancer
Wednesday 04 April 2012
Tall women are at greater risk of ovarian cancer, new research has shown.
Investigator was paid £1m to snoop for Fleet Street
Thursday 29 March 2012
Extent of Whittamore's inquiries into private lives on behalf of national newspapers revealed
Two year olds to receive learning progress checks
Tuesday 27 March 2012
The number of targets for five year olds is to be slashed from 69 to 17 while every two year old in England will receive a progress check to see if they are developing properly, Children’s minister Sarah Teather announced today.
The Chancellor sets out to woo world's business
Sunday 25 March 2012
Corporation tax at 22 per cent is designed to lure firms to the UK. Will it work, asks James Moore
Civil servants will learn to save £40bn
Tuesday 07 February 2012
Senior civil servants are being sent back to school to brush up their management skills as part of a Government overhaul intended to shave £40bn off the cost of forthcoming "major projects".
Retail veteran warns of 'death spiral' for shopping streets
Thursday 02 February 2012
A veteran retailer has urged the Government to reject Mary Portas's plans to save the high street, claiming many shopping streets are "in a death spiral".
Opinions are divided over cause of huge drop in heart disease
Thursday 26 January 2012
It is one of medicine's mysteries: what has caused Britain's plummeting rate of heart disease over the last decade? Deaths from heart attacks have halved since 2002 and no one is quite sure why. Similar changes have occurred in countries around the world, but the death rate in England has fallen further and faster than almost anywhere.
Spotlight on: Jason Gissing, Ocadoco-founder
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Haven't I seen him with Boris and Dave?
Alice Jones: Dear Loser. Now that's what I call a rejection letter
Saturday 21 January 2012
IMHO... Elly Nowell would have done well to check out the brilliant Letters of Note blog
One Minute With: Saul David, historian
Friday 20 January 2012
Where are you now and what can you see?
Research matters: Behind every breakthrough lies first-class infrastructure
Thursday 19 January 2012
World-class research needs facilities that evolve and keep pace with its advances
Student sends Oxford University rejection letter for 'taking itself too seriously'
Wednesday 18 January 2012
A student has sent her own rejection letter to a prestigious university criticising it for "intimidating" pupils from comprehensive school backgrounds during the interview process.
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