The outdoor gym

Forget pumping iron and the exercise bike. If you want to keep really fit head for the countryside and build a wall or clear some trees, says Steve Cochrane.

How I survived Chernobyl

Sasha Yuvchenko was working at the power plant on the night of the world's worst nuclear disaster. One of his workmates was vaporised and three others died within weeks. Vivienne Parry hears his terrible tale.

Health warning for hot days

The government will publish advice today on how to cope in a heatwave, to avoid a repetition of last year when an extra 2,0000 people died in 10 days in England alone.

Revealed: how food firms target children

Methods used by the food industry to target children have been uncovered by the Guardian on the day MPs publish a damning account of the government's 'woefully inadequate' response to obesity. By Felicity Lawrence.