Health and beauty

How to look chic in seconds

How to look chic in seconds

Channel M's Style In The City experts made the Guinness Book of World Records for completing the most makeovers in one hour.

We find out their top tips on performing your own lightning-quick transformation.


 

School dinners with class

School dinners with class

Jamie Oliver campaigned for healthier new school dinners. But do they pass the taste test?

Advice for blobby bobbies

Advice for blobby bobbies

IT'S comforting to know that in our obesity-obsessed society it's not only schoolkids who are being picked upon by politicians for being fat.


 

Healing animal magic

Healing animal magic

THE corporate world sunk its claws so deep into Jean Davies's psyche that her health and happiness had seriously started to deteriorate.

Free-wheelin'

Free-wheelin'

MOUNTAIN biking can be a full-on adrenaline sport or a gentle family day out in the country.


 

 

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