It's almost halfway through Movember - the sprouting season for charitable chaps who have let moustaches roam over their upper lips for a good cause. ...

The smashing together of November and moustache has begat Movember, a month which sees menfolk brandishing attempts at facial hair for a charitable ca...

For nearly eight years now people have stared at my face. In the street, on the tube, in shops, while I'm eating, it doesn't matter where I am, they can't help it. Some point, some laugh, most look on in admiration and sometimes, I'm sure I've seen onlookers weep steamy tears of joy when they look at me. The reason for this reaction is neither a grotesque affliction or that I resemble Brad Pitt. It is quite simply the Mo that adorns my face, big bushy and proud, combating prostate and testicular cancer by raising funds and awareness for Movember.

Trade unions have called a collective day of strike action on 30 November, warning the government that Britain faces the "biggest mobilisation in a ge...