The 2008 Green Spaces Travel awards

We're very impressed with the quality of entries and there's still time to enter - and win a rail holiday to Venice

• Green Spaces: June's nominations

Signs of the times 2008

The trail to find the funniest signs from around the world has begun - the second gallery of your photos is now live

Fashionista questionnaire: Liz Earle

The co-founder of Britain's biggest independent skincare brand takes us through her fashion essentials

Are you raising a brat?

A backlash has begun against the all-must-have-prizes culture that has produced children used to getting their own way

Jaguar auction revs up to go from 0 - £6m

1960 Jaguar E2A prototype shown at Bonhams auctioneers before going up for sale

Car insurance fraud runs at £5m a week

Insurance companies say that families are struggling to meet their hire purchase payments due to the credit crunch

The revival in Britain's stately homes

British stately homes were written off 40 years ago. But now they have undergone an economic and social renaissance, upstairs and down

Jack Sprat: supermarket rage is pointless

You never win in supermarkets, it's like picking a fight with a bouncy castle

150 seasonal recipes for July

July brings unusual flavours, a whole host of berries and golden fruits such as peaches and apricots

The man who wants to reshape your bits

David Matlock can "fix" you with his pioneering gynaecological techniques. But did you know it needed improving?

Ministers warned over 'limitless' NHS drugs bill

The plans, to be included in new NHS constitution unveiled later today, have been branded as unsustainable

What not to do when motivating people

It should come as no surprise that there are probably at least as many ways to demotivate people as to fire them up

Business mavericks make waves

Rebellious types can be financially successful but conformity is one of the basic building blocks of success