Health check

Spa with a suite touch

Hilly Janes finds a Park Lane hotel where a therapist provides room service

Breakthroughs, tips and trends

Research shows we consistently overestimate how much sleep we’ve had, usually by about an hour each night

Psyche

Spa with a suite touch

Hilly Janes finds a Park Lane hotel where a therapist provides room service

Breakthroughs, tips and trends

Research shows we consistently overestimate how much sleep we’ve had, usually by about an hour each night

Eco-worrier

How to ensure that companies are really doing good

There’s a joke going round about corporate social responsibility – often called CSR – that the C stands for cynical

• Is the bottom line helping this mother and child?

New pull for old curtains

What should I do with my old shower curtain? Plus, does Tesco really recycle Tetra Pak cartons? Eco-worrier answers

Healthy eating

Made to measure

Is there too much oil in your favourite dishes? Amanda Ursell picks the best gadgets for fat-free cooking

Return of the yummy mummy

For years Annabel Karmel has preached good homemade food for kids. Is she eating her words?

• Eat your greens

• Store detective: healthy fast food

Active living

A round of disc, anyone?

Philip Clothier tries his hand at a new sport from the States, golf with a twist. But is he up to par?

Fitness trend: Aqua-jogging

Kinder on joints, burns up more calories, great for pregnant women – it’s why more and more of us are taking up aqua-jogging, says Peta Bee

• Hard act to follow

• My Thai colonic irrigation

Better half challenges: Riding

In the first in a new series of husband-and-wife challenges Philip and Rosie saddle up

Green Living 

The Green Kitchen: Packaging re-use

Big retailers are making efforts to cut packaging – but there's still too much

Valley girl

Jane Wheatley was perhaps a little too pleased with her autumn festival last week. More on the gamekeeper's life

Al Gore’s inconvenient judgment

Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge has ruled

• U-turn on showing of Al Gore film in school

• Al Gore tipped to win Nobel

The Green Kitchen: That sinking feeling

The kitchen sink gets more than its share of Scorched Earth Cleaning – cream cleansers and the like. Is this necessary?