How clean is your air?

Pollution from traffic and factories is having an ever greater effect on our health. But as Clare Longrigg reports, it's not as simple as town v country.

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.