Life after the apocalypse

What if the doomsayers are right and society really is about to collapse? Tanya Gold offers an essential survival guide

Quiet please

Noise pollution causes sleep disturbance, raises blood pressure and can lead to heart disease. Rebecca Hardy on how to survive in an increasingly noisy Britain

Two wheels

Josie Dew: Why don't more parents cycle with their babies or toddlers on the back of their bikes?

Pre-washed salad is a dirty trick

Felicity Lawrence: It takes sweated labour to grow it, it's not even really washed before we eat it – and it costs a packet, literally