A seven-year-old girl is screaming hysterically in a secluded room. She has just had her clitoris cut off, her vagina sewn together and the surrounding areas of her genitalia burnt with corrosives. Her legs have been tied together and for months she will not be able to walk.

Over my years in the spotlight, I've often spoken openly about my experience with dementia - my fathered suffered with the disease during the later years of his life and for many years I worked to look after him before he entered a care home, when in need of more specialist treatment. I know first-hand how heart breaking and frightening it can be to go through the process of seeing an older relative is diagnosed with the condition.

This weekend I thought a really simple pasta dish would be a great way to indulge and unwind after a long week.

Just mention the word vegan or vegetarian and the insults fly. Vegetabilists, plant nazis, salad munchers, eco-warriors, hippy dippy morons, bunny huggers. hese from the meatarians - is that an insult or a proudly worn moniker? Carnivores versus Vegans. Light the blue touchpaper. You could start a riot! Why such outrage?

I found myself writing apologetically that I had taken 'career breaks' around the births of my two daughters. I did not write in big, bold letters 'Mother' the same way I wrote 'PR Manager' or 'Copywriter'. And the more I didn't write 'Mother' in big, bold letters to explain the years 1996-1998 and 2005-2009, the more furious I felt.

When Michelle Obama was genetically linked to Joan Tribbon - a white distant cousin living in Alabama - after a two year study of the First Lady's DNA...

When you read the hurtful comments made about Rebecca Adlington by the likes of Frankie Boyle, you wonder how she manages to put on her swimsuit and r...

A low FODMAP diet has been developed in Australia thought to help sufferers of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). FODMAPs - or Fermentable Oligosaccha...

My therapy sessions helped me deal with my addictive personality and my ridiculous relationships with shopping, sex, drugs and food. I'd tried, tasted, sniffed and snorted, filled my flat with clothes and possessions I never needed nor wanted and ate and drank my way around the world - but nothing made me happy.

A chemical found in green tea has been used to successfully treat two types of skin cancer, scientists say. The extract, known as epigallocatechin ...

We're used to reading up about barmy diets from Six Weeks To OMG which recommends ice-cold baths to the K-E diet involving a 'nose drip'. Now the d...

Purple is long-gone but Vingt-Quatre is alive and well, and has just had a makeover. I popped along to see if I could recapture some of my glory days. Unfortunately, not being almost 18 years old anymore, I get tired nowadays, and so I went for dinner, rather than at 3am.

The weights room can be an intimidating place for anyone let alone a newcomer and especially if you are a woman... So yes, I've been training hard in the weights room at my gym for three weeks now and it's been an interesting journey.

Over the last month or so my wine rack has been dominated by South African wine. This has all stemmed from an event I attended in London to highlight wines and food from South Africa. Since then it's been Africa all the way.

Despite what most people think, my TV career was not based on my stunning good looks. I'm a highly qualified meteorologist - and lately I've been thinking a lot about climate change. It's probably the biggest problem we've ever faced and it's not going away. If we want to live sustainably, we need to take action now, not when it's too late. The problem is, there's not much in the way of action going on. As a proud owner of a Rapanui t-shirt or two, we decided to do something together to make a point about sustainability.

Yesterday marked what would have been Coco Chanel's 129th birthday, despite dying in 1971 her legacy still lives on. Coco was a pioneer in the world of fashion with a colourful and exuberant character.

The national consent rate for organ donation from the relatives of the terminally ill is around 60% and with three people in the United Kingdom dying every day because of lack of tissue and organs, it's up to specialist organ donation nurses to try and increase the numbers.

The number of pensioners with cancer will treble by 2040, researchers suggest. In three decades' time, 4.1 million over-65s will be living with the...

There's nothing like a good bum story to make the Internet explode and here's one that just keeps rearing (thanks, we're here all week) its head. Whil...

An ingredient in red wine may help to keep older people steady on their feet, research suggests. Tests on ageing mice showed that a molecule found ...