Football fan insures against World Cup trauma
A football fan has taken out a £1m insurance policy to cover himself against the trauma of seeing England knocked out of the early stages of World Cup.
NHS trust in cash crisis over £6m in unpaid bills
· Stockpile of invoices found by maternity cover · Auditors say deficit of £21m needs to be repaid
Bitter pill if you suffer from an ailment
Nick Pandya counts the cost of travelling if you suffer from a common condition.
Brown’s guru rebukes NHS
The business leader who convinced Gordon Brown to pour more than £40bn into the NHS has issued a scathing rebuke over the government's failure to deliver genuinely radical improvements to patient care.
Teach more personal finance, schools urged
Parents would prefer their children to be taught how to handle their finances rather than some of the more traditional subjects, according to new research.
Is it OK … to join a gym?
Leo Hickman: There are many who pedal or row furiously on a machine in a gym and wonder why all the energy isn't being harnessed somehow and made to, say, power the television showing MTV above their heads. They are right to wonder this. You would have the added incentive that if you stopped pedalling, the loud music video driving you on, or the cooling air, would cease.
People always ask me…
... have you found any unusual objects in x-rays?
Women go private to get ‘miracle’ drug
Victims of breast cancer may be able to claim for Herceptin on their health insurance, writes Jill Insley.
Pleasure and pain in the dentist’s chair
Will the biggest shake-up in years leave you down in the mouth? Tony Levene reports.