About 500,000 children in England could be at risk of developing life-threatening liver disease because they are overweight, a health adviser says.

A group of charities calls for politicians to hold cross-party talks on reforming the care system for the elderly in England.

As many as half a million children in England could be at risk of developing life-threatening liver disease because they are overweight, according to a health adviser.

Charities have urged politicians to hold cross-party talks on reforming the care system for the elderly in England, ahead of a report into how people should pay to be looked after in their old age.

A team of volunteers have cut themselves off from the world for a week, in an effort to reproduce the experience of more than a million elderly people who live lonely and isolated lives. One of the volunteers, Caro Hart, describes her experience

The Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, discusses the issue of how we are going to pay for elderly care with an increasingly ageing population.