While compiling last week's Insider on 1970s style, I received an apt charity-shop gift from my nice neighbour: Rooms for Living, a 1976 Design Council paperback on the sitting-room. Despite its use of sunken sofas and giant toadstools, the brilliant tips are timeless. As the book is out of print, I'll share some here...

With gender-test furore behind her, the South African wants to defend 800m title

If you need a nap, get a hammock. You will nod off quicker and sleep more deeply, researchers say.

Obama and Cameron are wrong. The momentum is building for a more rational way of dealing with this problem

We assume that the principle of innocent until proven guilty prevails across the British criminal justice system. But that is a mistake. Those whose convictions are quashed must demonstrate that a miscarriage of justice has taken place in order to be awarded official compensation. Such individuals are, in effect, required to prove their innocence.

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Biting drama with not too much filling

Health and wellbeing expert Harriet Griffey answers your questions

Are we there yet? No longer can it be said that having a baby ties you down

From relaxation exercises to lavender oil, Lee Levitt has tried almost everything to ease his sleepless nights. Can a trip to a 'sleep retreat' – a boot camp for insomniacs – get him the shut-eye he craves?

The guru-principle holds good in Western classical music as it does in the music of the East. Kotaro Fukuma’s programme-note suggests he’s collected a whole gallery of gurus: if he’s drawn the key element from each, he should have crossed Leon Fleischer’s Teutonic power with Aldo Ciccolini’s Italian finesse, and Richard Goode’s serene classicism with Maria Joao Pires’s bold Romanticism; Mitsuko Uchida’s fastidious intensity with Leslie Howard’s virtuosity.

James Pickles was the self-proclaimed "human face of the judiciary" and "the People's Judge" whose outspoken and colourful attacks on the British legal establishment made him a household name in the 1980s and 1990s. Never one to shy away from his own self-belief and judgement, Pickles regularly attracted controversy for his contentious sentencing policy and his outspoken criticism of senior legal figures, once describing one Lord Chief Justice, Lord Lane, as a "dinosaur living in the wrong age" and another, Lord Hailsham, as a "brooding Quixotic dictator" born with a golden spoon in his mouth and as "an arrogant, pompous, toffee-nosed Old Etonian".

Workaholic Britons are in danger of running out of time to take their full annual holiday entitlement, a survey shows.