When Caroline Clark spoke to children in Shoreditch about food, prior to setting up a new healthy living initiative in the area, she was shocked by their limited diets. "They would turn up after school starving," she said, "and one boy confessed that the only food he had at home was white bread." As a result, the Shoreditch Trust - the local provider of the government's New Deal for Communities [...]

If 100,000 people travel to Edinburgh for the summit, they will be collectively responsible for emitting something in the order of 2,000 extra tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. That's in just a few days. To put this in context, it would take one Sudanese person 8,000 years to produce the same effect.

Anyone taking a plane from London will rack up nearly 100kg of CO2 emissions each way, while [...]

I am a Kipper, a Kid in Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings. Ask anybody - we're bad news: those lazy, spoilt, superannuated brats who, years after any self-respecting adult would have moved out, are still in the parental home, denuding the fridge, filling the laundry basket, inflating the phone bill and chipping away at parents' bank accounts.

After the dotcom collapse, the Equitable Life fiasco and the endowment mortgage scandal, [...]

In the swirl of media hype surrounding the number puzzle Sudoku, one surprising fact has gone unnoticed - the large numbers of women and girls who are confessing to the addiction. As a female player competing in the chauvinistic world of chess, I find this genuinely exciting.

According to Michael Harvey, features editor of the Times, Sudoku attracts equal numbers of fanatical responses from male and female readers. The man [...]