The new secret to finding joy

Midlife fitness guru Caroline Idiens talks about her new book, Fit at 50 , and why she’s so passionate about encouraging women to lift weights

Last year, Desert Island Discs presenter Lauren Laverne received a shock cancer diagnosis. In her first inter view since, she tells Sali Hughes how the experience has helped her to find joy in the everyday

Do you crave soft, shiny, silky hair that looks as if you’ve stepped straight out of a shampoo advert? Of course you do! Jennifer Lopez, 55, is a fan of Color Wow Dream Coat Supernatural Spray, £27, u

KITTY’S LONG RED hair was dripping as she sat down breathless on the nearest seat. She had thought she would miss the train. The narrow lanes around her parents’ house had been flooded and she had bee

‘He’s been a poppet, as always,’ Anne said when I arrived at her house to collect my son. On the days that I worked, my ex-mother-in-law picked Ezra up from school for me. She smiled indulgently. ‘He

Maggie smoothes down the front of her frock – the same dyed black dress she wore for Pa’s funeral ten years before. As she touches the fabric, she glances down at her hands, now decorated with liver s