ONE in four overweight Britons is "in denial" about their bulging waistline, a study revealed yesterday.

IT is among the rarest books ever printed and had been lost for a decade. A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England valued at £15 million has been recovered afte

THE pregnant fiancée of one of the failed 21 July suicide bombers was jailed for three years yesterday for helping him to escape dressed as a Muslim woman in a burka.

A DRINK-DRIVER who killed a woman when she ploughed into her vehicle at high speed while on her mobile phone was jailed yesterday for six years.

THE families of six young friends killed in a head-on crash with an articulated lorry, yesterday spoke of the devastating loss of loved ones who were "just starting out on

A draft resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and a number of his key allies has been vetoed at the UN Security Council

IN THE latest sign that America's love affair with big cars is coming to an end, shares in General Motors have sunk to their lowest price since 1954, forcing the manufact

HE MAY have cast himself as Heathcliff, the doomed anti-hero of Wuthering Heights, but Gordon Brown will not be tramping the Yorkshire moors for his summer holiday.

A POLITICAL earthquake has started in Glasgow East that will change the political landscape, Alex Salmond, the First Minister, claimed yesterday.

CONSERVATIVE Party leader David Cameron signalled yesterday that there would be no return for David Davis to the shadow cabinet following his by-election victory in Haltempric

ONE observer dubbed the G8 the "Glastonbury of diplomacy" â€" the kind of event that everybody wants to attend. But as the dust settles on the Japan summit of the world&

Her aim is to encourage wider use of the methods devised by educational pioneer Maria Montessori. About 700 British schools currently follow her principles of self-starting, open-classroom learning, including the Caterpillar Nursery in Chiswick, where Tana Ramsay used to work.

We have 16 dependent animals in our household: 12 chickens, two cats, one dog and one pony. We used to have a white fluffy bunny, but she escaped and was last seen lounging at the gate with a wild rabbit.

But then Camp Safari is an unusual concept in Britain. "The idea came from visiting our elder sister in Kenya who organises bespoke wildlife safaris," says Dan. "We thought we could do the same in the English countryside using local

Today, though, the whole thing is much bigger business. According to a report by research firm Mintel, some 200,000 young people set out each year from Britain on a gap year-type adventure, spending an average of £4,800 each. And while