Women 

How to wear killer jewels

Add dramatic energy to an understated black dress with bold with up-to-the-minute costume jewellery

The artist Natasha Law loves dressing down

The artist reckons that people see her as a total slob - unless they meet her at an event

How to do tasteful teenage make-up

In cosmetic terms Miley Cyrus, 16, is made up beyond her years. Here's advice on how to create a more appropriate look

Property & Gardens 

Leaseholders fight back

Leaseholders fed up with shoddy managing agents are taking matters into their own hands

How to keep your stately home

A new television series aims to help a bunch of cash-poor stately home owners keep the listed roofs over their heads. Are they up to it?

Holiday homes in the city

A second home abroad used to be about escaping the city but a European pied-à-terre can be a bolt hole and a holiday let

Men 

The new Spanx for men?

You thought Spanx were just for women. Now men are getting their own slimming and enhancing body garments

VIDEO: Stuntman crosses canyon by jetpack

Eric Scott has leapt into the record books by crossing a canyon with a jet pack powered by hair bleach. Now he wants to make it into a sport

Motormouth: Jon Homes

Since 2003, the Dartford Crossing has made a profit of about £50m a year. If that isn’t highway robbery, then I don’t know what is

Food and drink 

Top wine cellar to stay bottled up

Collection to make billionaires pale with envy will live in a museum

Ten top wine choices for Christmas gifts

A bottle of wine says so much more about the giver than a pair of socks or a tie: and it's bound to be the right size...

The big feast: part 3

Britain's best chefs create special seasonal dishes, including hors d'oeuvres, accompaniments and desserts in part three of our special

Education 

Strictly for children

Ballroom dancing used to be for playground cissies – not any more

Nativity comic books for multicultural Britain

Church leaders have produced Beano-style comic books, featuring Santa, to help children to learn the story of the Nativity

Students need truth over ‘soft’ A-level choices

Bright pupils may be ruining their chances of getting into a top university by choosing profession-based A-level subjects

Health 

I'm not coming in - my dog is stressed

As plans are announced to replace sick notes with 'fit notes' for the long-term ill - what future for quick sickie takers?

Brain injury victims find new self-confidence

Gardening therapy, run by the charity Thrive, is proving to help speed recovery and restore victims' sense of self-worth

Swiss back free-heroin scheme for addicts

The heroin programme, said to be the first of its kind in the world, was backed by 69 per cent of voters