The ten things that make me so happy to be alive, by ESTHER RANTZEN. Thanks to a wonder drug, I have more time than I expected after my lung cancer diagnosis. My mortality has led me to a revelation... and it'll cheer you too

28.12.2024 09:30 When I was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in January last year, I thought that's it, goodbye life. It turns out I was quite wrong.

Caroline Flack's friends hit back after her mother's painful questions: 'Why was it down to us to look after her that night? Where were her family?' KATIE HIND reveals rift - and haunting mystery about her death

28.12.2024 09:30 When Caroline Flack tragically took her own life almost five years ago, little did she know the extent of the fall-out. She had a huge group of friends and a loving family.

Cat Deeley's future on This Morning sealed as star makes shock admission about her time on ITV show

28.12.2024 09:30 Cat Deeley's future on This Morning has been confirmed just nine months after she made her debut.

BORIS JOHNSON: A £1,000 pot of face cream, driverless cars - and why Labour would be utterly MAD to try to reverse Brexit

28.12.2024 09:30 Since this is the final column of the year I feel obliged to make at least one prediction. So here goes. I make this forecast with some sadness, but with a conviction that has mounted over the months.

A former Tory minister offers a beleaguered Rachel Reeves some trenchant advice: With falling growth, rising inflation and taxes, you've made a sorry start. But there IS a way to turn things round... if only you're brave enough, says JOHN REDWOOD

28.12.2024 09:30 Firstly, let me say I admired your ambition in saying you would turn the UK into the fastest-growing G7 economy.

Truth about TikTok shop: It's addictive, unbelievably cheap and you can buy everything from steak to loo roll. As sellers boast about making thousands, CLARA GASPAR reveals secrets of the bargains... and the dark side

28.12.2024 09:30 It's approaching 10am on Wednesday morning. 'Four minutes girls! Four minutes to make a purchase! Go, go, go! Order before 10am for next day delivery,' shrieks a young blonde woman into her phone.

Jennifer Lopez bundles up in a puffer coat on winter shopping spree with Emme, 16, in Aspen

28.12.2024 09:30 Jennifer Lopez was every inch the doting mother while enjoying a lavish jewelry shopping spree with her 16-year-old child Emme Maribel Muñiz in Aspen, Colorado.

Whey aye! Geordies are the biggest cheese fans in the country with almost half eating at least 24lb every year

28.12.2024 09:30 A poll of 2,000 Britons found that 47 per cent of folk from the North East eat more than the UK average of just under 1kg per month.

Race against time to save three-year-old girl stuck 150ft down 700ft well - as rain hampers daring rescue mission

28.12.2024 09:30 Three-year-old Chetna plunged 150 feet down a 700ft well on Monday in the Indian village of Kotputli in Rajasthan.

Just Stop Oil eco-zealots caught importing t-shirts made by low-paid factory workers more than 4,000 miles away

28.12.2024 09:30 The eco activist group was branded a hypocrite for getting merchandise shipped from the Dominican Republic, rather than reducing its carbon footprint by having it made in Britain.

Over 70 assaults taking place in jails each day as prison violence increases by 28 per cent from previous year

28.12.2024 09:30 Research commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, showed there were 26,912 assaults recorded in jails in England and Wales in 2023, an average of 74 a day.

ROBERT HARDMAN: Decision to ban farmers' anti-inheritance tax adverts on the tube shows how Labour's petty tribalists censor dissent

28.12.2024 09:30 TfL says that the proposed ads - saying 'Stop the Family Farm Tax'- are 'politically controversial'. You do not need to be a lawyer to see that this is a brazen case of vindictive hair-splitting.

Gavin and Stacey actress Ruth Jones set to reprise role as Nessa just days after final episode aired

28.12.2024 09:30 The actress will step back into Nessa's trademark black bob wig and leather skirt to read Radio 4's Shipping Forecast as the programme celebrates its centenary on the BBC on New Year's Day.

How the last Japanese soldier was finally lured out of the jungle 30 years after WWII ended - then cruelly betrayed by the nation he thought he was still loyally fighting for...

28.12.2024 09:30 Teruo Nakamura had been a private in the Imperial Japanese Army. In December 1974, almost 30 years since the Second World War had ended, he was convinced it was still raging.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Police find Jeffrey Archer's stolen bronze sculptures at travellers' site

28.12.2024 09:30 EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I can disclose that four precious bronze sculptures, which were stolen from Jeffrey Archer's Cambridgeshire home in Grantchester, have been recovered.