Inspired much by this year's baking revival? Well Taste of Christmas 2nd - 4th December in partnership with AEG has announced its first ever Best in Show Cake Award, giving baking enthusiasts the chance to impress the public and the professionals with their fabulously festive creations.
Takeaways are often cheap, convenient and satisfying, but unfortunately they are not always very healthy. Some takeaway meals pack enough salt and fat to push you over your recommended daily allowance, which can lead to a variety of health problems, such as heart disease and diabetes. Here are some tips on foods to avoid and healthier options when ordering your favourite takeaway.
Pell Mell Theatre Company brings a bold and hilarious re-imagining of this Medieval Mystery play to some thoroughly modern children. Three shepherds sit on a hill grumbling about bad weather and sore feet. The reason they have to stay up all night? There is a notorious sheep thief on the loose!
If you're eating out at a restaurant or cafe, you can make choices to ensure that your meal is healthy and balanced. It's all too easy to have more saturated fat, salt and sugar than you realise when you're not cooking your own meal.
The Ramblers is Britain's walking charity, working to safeguard footpaths, the countryside and other places we go walking, and to encourage more people to take up walking.
A new report Case Study of a Health Crisis finds there has been an alarming rise in new farm superbugs, especially MRSA and E. coli that are passing to humans. The report links this rise to the fact that nearly 50% of all antibiotics are used in farming and argues that one of the fundamental causes of food and animal-related antibiotic resistance is factory farming.
