Health Fitness

Image copyright Antony Wren Image caption The sender of the card only knew the intended recipients lived “somewhere near the sea in Suffolk” A couple say they were “amazed” to receive a Christmas card where the only address details on the envelope were “somewhere near the sea in Suffolk”. Antony …

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With concern about the decline of bees in the UK, the University of London has created an oasis for the insects on a rooftop.

The official edited transcript of what goes on in Parliament is published daily and details both the momentous occasions and the quieter moments in the Commons. Daily Politics reporter Ellie Price met some of the Hansard team – Vivien Wilson, Helen Lowe and Jack Homer – who hear, and publish, …

A mother who has waited for a year and a half for a liver transplant said she hopes a donor comes forward this Christmas. Sarah Barker, 33, from Royston, Hertfordshire, was born with a childhood disease of the liver called Biliary Atresia. The average waiting time for a liver transplant …

Meals in prisons are often substandard and need a nutritional overhaul, says the writer and campaigner Lucy Vincent. In a personal film for the Daily Politics soapbox series, she called for better education for catering skills saying it would help rehabilitation and improve employment prospects. More: Follow @daily_politics on Twitter …

Many GPs in England have stopped providing some forms of contraception because of funding cuts, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Clinicians are warning that cuts to contraceptive services will mean “more unplanned pregnancies and abortions”. Health workers tell the programme what effect any restrictions to contraception may have on …

As the waters around the UK’s shores grow warmer, we may have a replacement for the fish supper.

Image caption Although never a close ally of Margaret Thatcher, he held key positions in her government Former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Prior has died at the age of 89. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s. Before …

Liberal Democrat Health spokesman, Norman Lamb, has called on the government to take urgent action over the crisis in social care funding. Spending has fallen by 9% in real terms over the past five years, with local government blaming cuts to their funding from central government.