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Young patients turn to blogs to make cancer public

Three young people explain how writing a blog helps them explore their feelings about what it's like to live with the disease

Don't take fashion tips from Shearer

Hadley Freeman: The BBC football pundits look like bouncers. Why would you emulate their look?
Once upon a life: David Vann

When his boat's engine breaks down, novelist David Vann finds himself at the mercy of a pair of drunken pirates
If your friends get divorced, you could be next in line

Academic research finds that relationship break-ups within groups of friends can be contagious
Location dining

Have you ever had a spectacular meal in a setting to match, or is it true that the posher the unusual location is, the dodgier the dining will be?

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Food & drink
Restaurant review: Obsidian

A miserable start to the week brought rain, dull food and slow service in Manchester's Obsidian
Nigel Slater's warm smoked mackerel with broad beans

Our late spring followed by just the right amount of sun and rain means a bounty of lettuce and beans
- Nigel Slater's classic vanilla ice cream recipe

Fashion & beauty
Bill Nighy: five things I know about style

The actor on sporting a kilt, feeling relaxed naked, and women wearing Chanel
What I bought this week: a coat and a dress

Polly Vernon: I am infatuated with a coat. It's an oversized shearling-lined aviator jacket

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Health & fitness
Fertility: how do we decide who deserves a baby?

New criteria to assess women eligible for IVF treatment may not solve old problems
This column will change your life

Is it really a case of innovate and die, wonders Oliver Burkeman
Celebrity
Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natascha McElhone

Two years ago, actress Natascha McElhone's husband died of a heart attack. Her account of bereavement is a moving testament, says Elizabeth Day
Naomi Campbell finds war crimes a trial

Who says diamonds are a girl's best friend?
- Katie Price and Alex Reid scrape by
- Cif: Beware dictators bearing gifts, Naomi
Women
Truth about porn

Leading anti-porn campaigner Gail Dines tells Julie Bindel how the the sex industry is ruining our relationships
I've made a baby!

At 41, Jennie Withers found herself single and childless - so she appealed for a 'co-parent'. Here's the extraordinary story of what followed
- 62 children and counting ...

Family & relationships
When Mummy went to live with Jesus

Without warning, at the age of 10, Anne Watts was introduced to her 'new' mother. But what had happened to the old one?
Dear Mariella

I've been with a lovely woman for two years. We want to have a family, but the relationship has been turbulent and she applies pressure to try for kids
Homes & gardens
One day at a time

Day lilies are not only beautiful, tough and drought-tolerant, they're fabulously tasty, too, says Alys Fowler
Space solves

The search for a lamp shade suitable for a small front room, plus the inside track on exposing brickwork
Craft
Good enough to eat

Gallery (6 pictures): The craft exhibition that features woolly bunnies in a knitted pie and sequinned sardines
- Woolly thinking
Tea cosy craft

Brighten up the breakfast table with a handcrafted tea cosy. Lisa Stickley shows you how