A dietitian has revealed the five reasons why aiming for 10,000 steps per day isn't enough for weight loss - and what you should be doing instead. For a number of years now, professionals and health experts have recommended that we need to walk 10,000 steps per day if we …...Read More

A year ago, the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn declared all-out war on the BBC. Why? Because of a Panorama programme in which seven former Labour party staffers blew the whistle about anti-Semitism in Corbyn's Labour Party. They explained how they felt a growing factionalism under Corbyn had created a …...Read More

Leeds United have defended the decision to allow boss Marcelo Bielsa and his entire played squad to celebrate promotion to the Premier League on an open-top bus in front of thousands of fans amid the coronavirus crisis. Club officials and supporters' groups had urged fans to stay away from Elland …...Read More

An inflatable pub, a Tom Jones jigsaw puzzle, a Mr Bean cardboard cutout, a stretch rubber chicken, a star and a penny farthing are some of the unusual items Britons snapped up during lockdown. Holed up in their homes, it it clear that some Britons went to great lengths and …...Read More

The price of premium mobile phones have risen 490 per cent in the last two decades, new research shows. It means the outlay for a top of the range model is close to heading back to the early 1990s, when huge mobile phones were only used by the rich and …...Read More

It is impossible to know whether the UK's coronavirus outbreak will get worse this winter, according to researchers. Concerns are growing that Britain will be hit by a second wave of Covid-19 when the weather turns colder and that the current drop in infections and deaths is merely a reprieve. …...Read More

Once hailed as a breakthrough technology, the coronavirus pandemic may now spell the death-knell for the touch-screen era as car giant Jaguar Land Rover pioneers new ‘touch-free’ contactless screens to help fight the spread of the virus. New patented ‘predictive touch’ technology, developed by the Britain’s biggest car-maker in conjunction …...Read More

Watching too much television increases your risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, researchers have found. And sitting down to watch the small screen is worse than doing so at work or when driving because viewers tend to snack at the same time, the data suggests. Couch potatoes …...Read More

Every British garden is linked to our nation's controversial colonial past - but that is nothing to be ashamed of, presenter Monty Don claims. The TV gardener, 65, insists we should not feel guilty about growing and enjoying plants plundered and brought back more than 200 years ago. Instead, he …...Read More

She likes to celebrate the publication of each of her books with ‘a cold glass of champagne —with lots of bubbles’. But best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop may feel in the mood for a bottle of retsina this morning — if not a magnum. For I can disclose that she has …...Read More