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Sound check - Annie Mac - the queen of dance

07.10.11
Club music is at an all-time high and suddenly everyone wants to know where the next big tune is coming from - who better to ask than Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac?... more

Learn to dance like your favourite diva

21.09.11
Think you can shake your booty like Beyoncé? Scarlett Archer finds learning to dance like your favourite star is a great way to get fit... more

No comparison: Confused.com profits slip

24.08.11
Cara, the bug-eyed cartoon character who sings (to the tune of "YMCA") that "you could get a good deal" at confused.com, has yet to catch up with the meerkats... more

Dance Marathon, Traverse - review

10.08.11
Edinburgh Theatre: Dance Marathon is easily the most innovative piece I've seen on this year's Fringe and with greater structure and focus it could become a cult Edinburgh fixture for years to come... more

My mission to cure paralysis

01.06.11
A former banker tells Rosamund Urwin how her brother's accident inspired her to set up a charity to help spinal cord injury sufferers... more

Airbrushed images make children worry about their shape, warn MPs

17.05.11
Magazines face new curbs on how they airbrush images of models and celebrities ... more

Bosses 'give office workers guilt trips about lunch and exercise'

05.05.11
Bosses are fuelling unhealthy lifestyles by 'guilt tripping' staff over taking exercise and lunch breaks... more

Boris Johnson: Try walking to work

02.12.10
Londoners will be told to walk to work in a bid to get the capital’s workforce fit and active... more

Meet the mayor and mayoress of Camden

24.11.10
A gay mayor and his ukulele-playing lesbian mayoress are promoting their borough with apolitical zeal, preferring to focus on its bohemian spirit and musical heritage... more

Policeman told us: A fox has taken your dead baby

29.03.10
London couple describe their horror at being told that the body of their five-day-old boy had been taken by a fox after being placed in a mass grave... more

Swedercise: fitness with a smile to Swedish pop

06.01.10
A tough way to get fit (hence the English translation, "healthy and sweaty") but you can't help smiling by the end of a Swedercise session... more

Cheaper gym sessions and Twitter buddies to cut obesity

22.06.09
Thousands of Londoners will get free gym sessions under government measures to fight obesity... more

2012 and all that

27.05.09
Olympics: Our round-up of the latest Olympic news... more

Defying gravity

10.05.09
Forget the treadmill or the step - the latest workouts, coming to a gym near you, owe more to high-flying circus arts. Peta Bee tells how to bear the suspense... more

You can hang out with all the boys, Walliams

18.03.09
David Walliams didn't look too happy about being snapped with his chum Dale Winton.... more

How to survive the slump

17.09.08
As we head towards recession, Londoners are feeling the pinch like never before. Liz Hoggard proves it is possible to tighten your belt and still have fun - and our experts show you how... more

'They arrested the gorilla!'

02.06.08
On the concourse at Liverpool Street station, two men dressed as Tower Bridge are dancing a slow waltz...this is not a strange dream: it is the last party of Ken Livingstone's London... more

Robber in suit hit students with bottle

21.05.08
A Slovenian man was caught on CCTV launching a brutal attack on two female medical students on a railway footbridge... more

The science of pop: Guess the song from these pie-charts, graphs and scientific tables

12.04.08
It's the latest internet craze - spoof scientific charts and diagrams based on the titles of pop songs and the artists who performed them. So can you name the song and singer for each of these? ... more

Gold among trash

30.08.06
Marina O'Loughlin hasn't come across a restaurant so determined to ward off trade as Kobe Jones and, as she discovered, it's a downright contrary place.... more


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