Ever wanted to lose weight permanently? Lorna Houldsworth appeared on Channel 4's Richard & Judy programme as a weight-loss guinea pig. Lorna was a depressed serial dieter who had never succeeded in losing weight....

Vitamin and mineral supplements are widely touted by the multi-billion pound health food trade as the panacea for a long and active life. But what if vitamin supplements were also capable of causing cancer, heart disease and strokes? Newsmonster investigates the alarming new evidence that taking a daily multivitamin pill may shorten your life. 

Widely derided by sceptics, spiritual healing is now available on Britain's National Health Service. A small but growing band of doctors and nurses are convinced that it does actually work.

“The alligator had the man in a death grip – I had to act fast,” says Tom Arundel, 73, a retired tractor plant production controller from Basildon, Essex . Tom told Newsmonster how he took on a killer gator in the middle of a round of golf - and won.