While much of the nation gears up for temperatures topping 20C on Monday, the high tree pollen count may signal a day of suffering inside for ten million hay fever sufferers.

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Red has always stopped traffic, but for spring it's about to turn heads too. It's a colour best worn head to toe, says Emma Ackbareian

Last time pollen peaked so early was in the early1960s

Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol has thanked well-wishers for their sympathy and support ahead of her mother’s funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday, saying she was prepared for a “tough and tearful week, even for the daughter of the Iron Lady”.

Whether you favour colourful print or minimalist white, give your outfit a kiss of life with the hippest new finishing touches from the high street

Comedian Cleo Rocos recalls the night out in her new book

Victoria Beckham has released a collection of her greatest hits to celebrate offering her designs online, says Rebecca Gonsalves

There are a number of well-practiced methods of dealing with the discovery a spouse has been cheating. You can sweep it under the rug, you can go to couples' therapy, you can get your own back. Or - as one Vancouver woman showed last week - you can post an ad for a "huge ass estate sale" and sell all the culprit's treasured possessions for a knockdown price. Chah-ching!

This spring, go back to the future with the space-age and swinging signatures of London’s hippest decade, says Gemma Hayward

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Welsh hideaways, Keswick writers, Miami, online holiday shop, animated Exeter, Winter Olympics, Ecuador and Jamaica

Coronation Street star Michelle Collins has described how she was threatened during a "scary" confrontation with a group of teenagers on a train.

If they even woke up at all, there won't be many new year's revellers who roused themselves this morning to wonder what technological marvels the next ten years have in store. Thankfully, Wired has done that piece of thinking for us.