Swapping one fizzy drink or beer a day for water slashes the risk of obesity by up to 20 per cent, say scientists. A study of almost 16,000 adults found they were a fifth less likely to develop the condition if they had a glass of water instead of a beer. Replacing a sugar-sweetened soft drink - such as a Coke - in the same way was linked with a 15 percent reduction in risk. Britain has been dubbed the...

Student living once meant staying in a cramped bedroom in old halls of residence but now students are staying in top accommodation, some even complete with their own cinema rooms! We’ve put together some of the top student halls around the country, courtesy of the UK’s first and most comprehensive student halls search engine Mystudenthalls.com. Glasgow Glasgow West End is set to be the coolest student accommodation in Glasgow – with a giant 15ft slide, festival space, and bookable dining rooms...

Have you always dreamed of representing England at the World Cup? Always longed to score the winning goal at Wembley? Well, now you could be in with a chance. Trials for the World’s first Bubble Football World Cup are to take place in Shoreditch next month before the England team is joined by squads from around the world for the Stag Company Bubble Football World Cup at Wembley before Russia 2018 gets underway in June. With 12 international teams already signed up, including Brazil,...

DFDS has reported its best ever first quarter result just months after celebrating its 150th birthday. The historic ferry and logistics operator posted a four per cent increase in revenue for first three months of 2017, with profit before tax up by ten per cent thanks to strong freight performance and despite slightly weaker UK passenger numbers due to the late Easter. In an indicator of strong underlying economic trends, freight volumes and UK-Continental trade flows continue to grow and the...

Oh dear, the Tory Chancellor has had a bad day, Theresa May didn't back him to still be Chancellor for much longer and he made a £20n error on the cost of HS2 on Radio 4. He was trying to attack the Labour manifesto, but instead made a huge error. He said their was a massive hole in Labour's spending plans, but he then forgot the cost of the controversial high speed rail linked, hate by many Shire Tory MPs....

A gran who was so fat she could hardly walk from her front door to the car has completed a 10km run after shedding a whopping 18 stone to be crowned Slimming World’s Greatest Loser. Tracey Topping, 47, was nearly 30 stone was struggling to walk or stand, constantly out of breath and jobless. She couldn’t even fit in the bath and was humiliated when a parent at her son’s school moved seats at a meeting, complaining he couldn’t see...

Dad-of-one Marek Chapanionek, 44, was defrosting his freezer at around 11.30pm on Monday (15/5) night when the woodland critter entered his house. The animal then "terrorised" the account manager's property, eating a Nutri-Grain bar from the handbag of wife Caroline, 47, and terrifying two-year-old cat Dotty. Marek even called daughter Katherine, 19, who is a second-year politics student at the University of Reading, as the creature rummaged through her bedroom drawers. Eventually the unwelcome guest settled down in Dotty's cage,...

Plant life on Antarctica is growing rapidly due to climate change, scientists have found. Few plants live on the continent, but scientists studying moss have found a sharp increase in biological activity in the last 50 years. A team including scientists from the University of Exeter used moss bank cores – which are well preserved in Antarctica’s cold conditions – from an area spanning about 400 miles. They tested five cores from three sites and found major biological changes had...

This heart-stopping dashcam footage captures a reckless driver swerving across three lanes of a busy motorway to make the exit slip road. Trucker Mike James was approaching junction 11a of the M5 in Gloucestershire when a black Audi A3 overtook him in the outside lane. But seconds later it suddenly swerves left towards the southbound slip road - squeezing between two moving cars in the middle lane. The car kicks up a plume of dust on the slip road hazard...