Some healthy-sounding foods make surprisingly bad company. Combine them in the same meal and your body may absorb less of some vitamins and minerals than you expect. That’s because some compounds in ...

What piece of luggage takes its name from the French for “carry cloak”? It is also used for terms in which two separate words combine to make a new one.

Most travellers dream of ticking a few destinations off their bucket list, but Sue Rogers has gone considerably further. In fact, more people have been to space than have travelled to all the193 ...

Around half of people over 50 have experienced some degree of knee trouble in the past year – whether full-on pain or just a sense that their knees aren’t as strong as they once were. Many of us ...

Fresh berries are now the most popular fruit item in UK shopping baskets, accounting for 28% of all fruit sold. Strawberries may still dominate the berry aisle, but blueberries are one of the ...

Perthshire, 1957. The Camerons have left their Glasgow tenement to run a youth hostel in the middle of remote Rannoch Moor. Their sweet, wise mother is dying, their father is intemperate and their ...

This autumn jam is a great preserve to make for foragers or anyone with a bountiful supply of autumn fruit, especially if you have a little of everything and want to mix any hedgerow fruit such as ...

What were you like as a child? My wife is always telling me there’s been no development in my life whatsoever. She thinks I am exactly as I was at six – and I suspect that she’s right. Aged six, I had ...

De Tores tells the story of misfit Alexander Selkirk (the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe), marooned on a remote island – his fight for survival, his isolation. Thank heavens for a ...

What kind of a child were you? I was always laughing and singing and obsessed with superheroes, but then aged ten, I went to boarding school in Plymouth, which was awful. Boarding schools are wrong.

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Are there any newer alternatives to conventional cataract surgery? I am due to have mine operated on but the leaflet that the specialist gave me contained a long list of possible complications, which ...