The celebrity chef's highly publicised campaign to get British schoolchildren eating healthy food has lost its government backing.

Auckland-born Emilia Wickstead dresses the British Prime Minister's wife but her feet are firmly on the ground, writes Zoe Walker.

Vintage TV, which is due to begin broadcasting in September, is aimed at the over-fifties.

A range of factors lie behind actress Gwyneth Paltrow's bone-wasting condition osteopenia.

British pop star Cheryl Cole is set to make an appearance in long-running comic The Beano.

Recent nay-saying that the festival neglects the young is insane. Teens were the most visible age-bracket on site.

Making a cameo on the Pyramid Stage, the awkward royal could no sooner pull off the festival look as he could his dress.

The Independent's Rob Sharp joins the masses at the UK's most famous music festival.

A battle over factory farming in the UK is underway...

Global celebrations of Jackson's brilliant but troubled life kicked off with the unveiling of a memorial in London yesterday.

The former creative director of Chloe, who's always known what women really want to wear, is now casting her spell at Celine.

A copy of the script for the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides movie has been found in a cafe in central London.

Jon Venables was convicted with Robert Thompson of the 1993 murder of two-year-old James Bulger in the United Kingdom.

Dylan Thomas' final home is as lyrical and off-beat as his best-known work, writes Sankha Guha.

Being a musical icon doesn't mean you can talk through gigs - especially when you're standing behind the star's Dad.

An engineer who spent 40 years obsessively digging tunnels under his home has left council bosses to shoulder a massive bill.