While we rush around our homes checking for dripping taps, the water companies also have some work to do, putting their own house in order.

Worried about the world your children will inherit? So were Laurent and Marie-Hélène de Cherisey.

Many people in the USA and Europe are designing their own communities. David Bygott and his wife Jeannette recently moved into a cohousing community. What's that like?

Nicci Dodanwela tells the story of how she overcame anorexia.

Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease 13 years ago, God's love shines on and from my mother.

School leaver Eorann Lean gets a buzz out of a conference for young and old

Walking along the slave routes of West Africa helped Kojo Jantuah to discover his identity-and his destiny.

Stan Hazell meets a nonagenarian whose latest book is a surprise hit in Britain's prisons.

Ann Rignall meets Pete and June Pemberton, who have fostered 360 children over the past 40 years.

Helena de von Arnim, from Colombia, believed that being abused as a child had condemned her to a lifetime of hate.