A leading health charity says the cold snap could result in thousands of people dying at home alone this Christmas.

Adam Brimelow has met up with a group in Lewisham who talk to their vulnerable neighbours about dying.

A new study has cast further doubt on the idea that a virus called XMRV causes chronic fatigue syndrome.

The BBC's Fergus Walsh visited a blood donation session in London as the NHS appeals for O negative donors.

Infection control and cleanliness still needs to be improved at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, an inspection finds.

The snow is adding to the winter pressures on the NHS, causing staff shortages, record calls to ambulance services and dwindling blood supplies.

Visitors and new patients are to be stopped going onto a hospital ward after an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug, norovirus.