We tell white lies, darker ones; lies that damage and lies that protect. An intricate web of honesty and deception, sincerity and pretence, is essential for our relationships with other people.

Novelist Janet Ellis, 60, advises readers on their problems. This reader invited her mother to live with her after her father died but now her mother has taken over the running of the house.

Find out how you can get fit in 15 minutes with the ski squat exercise. It is a great strengthener and toner for lower legs and calves, and lifts the bottom, says Nadya Fairweather of u-shape.co.uk.

Carol Vorderman, 55, has been a regular on British TV since she started co-hosting Countdown in the early Eighties. Next April, she plans to fly solo around the world.

One in four of us spend more time online than we do asleep. Checking your phone just before bed is likely to keep you awake longer. Remove temptation getting yourself an alarm clock.

Tuck pretty pussy-bow blouses into tailored trousers or pencil skirts, team print dresses with black opaque tights and add elegant accessories to complete the look.

Gillie Coghlan, a freelance PA, lives in the Cotswolds with her musician husband and her dog. Here she shares the routines that keep her looking and feeling young. It includes lots of lotion and sunshine.

It really is never too late to fall in love. I have two friends who found the love of their life in their 40s. Both were dumbfounded by their good luck. But fiction is a great road map for late love.

Now is the time to open up your jewellery box and take a good look at anything you own that might involve pearls. After a long time in fashion exile, they're back in circulation.

An A-level student called Nick managed to fool the internet with a John Lewis-style Christmas ad telling the story of a lonely snowman that was so convincing people thought it was the real thing.

Swiss chocolatier Marc Widmer claims to have created a chocolate bar that can help ease period pain. The Frauenmond bar is said to contain 17 Swiss mountain herbs along with 60 per cent chocolate

The authors of these notes have resorted to publicly shaming their neighbours for their bad behaviour. Dog mess, late night noise and loud sex are just some of the complaints in these viral notes.

Alice Husband, 42, from Lincolnshire, left, said Amy Asker, 33, right, has been punished enough as she will have to live with the fact she killed her son for the rest of her life.

London-based nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert reveals the foods that match our body parts, and what we should all be eating to stay healthy. Are you regularly eating these foods?

A new foodie brainteaser is leaving thousands infuriated on Facebook. The riddle asks you to work out what some symbols of beers and burgers add up to. So what's the answer?

The Perth mother of a baby boy who passed away at just 32 days old after battling whooping cough, has spoken of her experience of having a 'rainbow baby' - after welcoming a baby girl.

Melbourne newsreader, Candice Wyatt, has shared a heartbreaking video in which she speaks about the death of her mother, Karyn, from a brain tumour. Ms Wyatt now works to raise awareness.

A new brainteaser is sweeping the web, with thousands of people trying, and failing, to work out the correct answer of which box a car is in.

When Susanna Liang's husband told her he wanted to be a woman, she didn't know how to react. However, Andrea and Susanna, from Brisbane, are now happier than ever and have a baby

A pregnant woman has written a hilarious account of mistakenly rubbing chilli oil on her vagina. To make it worse, the woman, believed to be Australian, was served chili con carne when she got to hospital.

American mother Lauren Vinje has shared a photo of her premature baby girl smiling five days after being born. Since, hundreds of other mothers have shared snaps of their own smiling bubs.

One of Australia's most popular beauty bloggers Brittney Saunders has taken to Snapchat in tears for the second time in two weeks following splits with her Melbourne based boyfriend Dylan.

International model Jean Shrimpton (pictured) shocked the fashion world when she wore a white mini skirt to Melbourne's Derby Day in 1965. Since then, female punters have shown a lot more flesh.

Experts say that you've been putting on your perfume wrong, and that for the best results you should be spraying your scent on your belly button.

A Melbourne mother-of-two has revealed the heartbreaking conversation she had with her two young daughters after the shock discovery of cancer in her chest, brain and heart.

While the idea of owning a suburban four-bedder may be the dream for many, six people with a terminal illness have offered their perspective on what's truly important in life.