AMAZON PRIME How To Build A Girl In 2014, Caitlin Moran’s novel How To Build A Girl became a bestseller. Based loosely on her own experiences, it tells the story of teenager Johanna Morrigan, who decides to reinvent herself as rock music critic Dolly Wilde, complete with outlandish clothes, dyed …...Read More

Every Briton over 50 could be offered a free flu jab this winter as Ministers 'consider all options' to avoid a double-whammy scenario of a bad flu season and a second wave of Covid-19. 'It's still under discussion and will depend on vaccine stocks, but it makes sense to extend …...Read More

Most young siblings spend their summer holidays building dens together, or imaginary castles out of cardboard boxes. But playtime for Paul Walters and his sister Vicky, from Essex, was somewhat more dangerous – usually landing them in hospital. Those of a faint disposition may want to stop reading now. They'd …...Read More

Princess Beatrice upheld royal tradition as sprigs of myrtle were included in her breathtaking bridal bouquet. The princess, who is ninth-in-line for the throne, married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, yesterday at the Royal Chapel of All Saints, in the grounds of Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park. Both the Queen and …...Read More

If you're anything like me, you probably spend a fair bit of time wondering where to go on holiday, where to have lunch or where to go for a nice walk. But do you ever consider where you want to die? That's not a question that ever troubled me until …...Read More

Splash! 10,000 Years Of Swimming Howard Means Allen & Unwin £16.99 There are all sorts of swimmers, and all sorts of reasons for swimming. The author of Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, would swim in the Seine twice a day, relishing what he called ‘a thousand liquid nipples’ travelling all over …...Read More

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer led the charge to allow Islamic State bride Shamima Begum to return to the UK last year – despite fears she would endanger British lives. As a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet, Sir Keir said in March 2019 that stripping Begum of her British …...Read More

Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe William Collins £20 Rating: All around the world, statues are falling. In Britain it’s slave traders and colonialists who have found themselves at the bottom of rivers, or boarded up for their own safety. Protesting Americans, meanwhile, have pulled down monuments to Confederate generals who …...Read More

Have you heard of the peanut butter test for Alzheimer's? If you can't smell it, it could be an early-warning sign of the disease. I know, it sounds bizarre. When I told my husband about it a few weeks back, I'm fairly sure he didn't believe me – in fact, …...Read More

It's strange to think back to life before the pandemic – just seven months ago a world with Covid-19 didn’t even exist. Family and friends could be greeted with hugs, and evenings and weekends were whiled away in packed, noisy restaurants and bars. When old footage of a crowd pops …...Read More