Will you still need me? Will you still feed me?

A company has been fined more than £10,000 for selling unapproved beds to vulnerable elderly people, a regulator has said.

At 68, Nick Hewer could be watching Countdown with his feet up as his pension rolls in. Instead, he's presenting the show. He also found time this week to rescue the agriculture industry in the The Farm Fixer and was last night reunited with Margaret Mountford, his Apprentice co-sidekick, in The Town That Never Retired.

Knickerless races, and other Olympic failures

Another older black talent supported by younger artists – here, indie stalwarts Jon Spencer, The Mekons and The Sadies – Andre Williams is a renegade r'*'b spirit who remains, in his seventies, as scurrilous as ever.

With others like Maya Angelou she stormed the UN and shouted down the US ambassador

A group of scientists is developing a treatment to combat the "disease" of ageing. They aim to keep people younger for longer by studying fruit flies, which share 60 per cent of human genes and age in remarkably similar ways.

Fourteen women who survived the horrors of the Second World War have paraded in a pageant, vying for the honour of being crowned Israel's first "Miss Holocaust Survivor". The winner of the controversial event was Chava Hershkovitz, far right.

Care home patients suffering from dementia should be allowed to participate in consensual sex, experts said.

The Downing Street Jubilee party was a great Big Society occasion despite the festivities being held inside, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.

Forget the botox and hair dye - people can smell your age, a study has shown.

It is unfortunate that the hoopla around this year's Orange prize was not about the winner but the sponsor. Of course the question of sponsorship remains, but it should not overshadow Madeline Miller's moment.

Frail elderly and disabled people are being charged more for council help to get washed, dressed and fed at home, according to a survey.