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Catching Britain's Killers showed how science could help people overcome grief, horror and fear

Forensic science is an exact, well, science. Full of numbers, equations and calculations, it wants to strip out the emotions surrounding a crime and get to the bare facts.

Entertainment

Looking at when to clear out your make-up bag

Here is what to look out for when clearing up your makeup bag

It’s that time of year where we get into new routines, weather changes, your wardrobe changes.

Lifestyle

Here is how to treat thrush

Through my training, I learned about some interesting approaches to treating thrush.

Health

Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt in World on Fire

BBC's new Second World War drama World on Fire might be a bit soapy, but it tells the extraordinary stories of ordinary people

Tensions are rising, people taking sides between left and right, there is a frisson of violence in the air.

Entertainment

Here is how to treat digestive discomfort and acid reflux

Digestive discomfort and acid reflux are regularly treated with antacids.

Health

Saying hi to Eric Morecambe befopre our rainy outside broadcast

Life and times of a radio presenter | Jabbering Journo column

In the latest adventures of a rookie BBC radio presenter, my co-presenter and I decided to be all brave and do an outside broadcast (OB) on Sunday.

Opinion

Are you a cyberchondriac? | Jabbering Journo column

The GP drops her head in her hands as you explain - ever so patiently - that you have diagnosed yourself via the font of knowledge that is Dr Google and the prognosis is not good.

Opinion

Sam Taylor, co-owner of new Orwell themed bar, 1984

New Wigan bar celebrates George Orwell's dystopian nightmare 1984

Our beer expert Andrew Nowell predicts visitors will love bar's Big Brother theme...

Opinion

Wigan Boys’ Club was a real lifesaver for needy teens

Our top columnist Geoffrey Shryhane takes a look at a predecessor to Wigan Youth Zone...

Opinion

Police at the scene of one of the shootings

CHARLES GRAHAM: A new level of fear on the borough’s streets

What terrifying times these are for the residents of certain Wigan communities.

Opinion

Anti-vaccine protesters make their case in the US, part of BBC2's documentary The Conspiracy Files: Vaccine Wars

BBC2's The Conspiracy Files: Vaccine Wars made a stand for science in the face of anti-vaccine quackery

There was a tremendously biased, partial and unbalanced programme on the BBC this week, but The Conspiracy Files: Vaccine Wars (BBC2, Thursday, 9pm) had every right to be.

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