Evidence that public transport announcements of "please make sure you take all your belongings with you when you leave the train" have very little impact on an evening commuter's brain is that one hapless Robert Napier left his violin on a train from London to Taunton, 2 and a half months ago. No cheap fiddle, this. No. He'd just been to get it valued. It's a violin worth around £180,000 and a 17th century......

Northwick Park Hospital: not the place to have babies. Now they’re trying to find out why. Data: let’s just ban the stuff and stop getting all stressy about it. Now it transpires that no less than 13 London councils have lost sensitive material in the last year. The fearful passage of death-mark’d love has taken its course: Mark Speight has been found hanged. This was a real tragedy. Test driving a car has a......

Sure, the economy is crumbling around us, a third of Northern Rock employees are facing redundancy, and Beatrice McCartney only has a £35,000 allowance, but it’s comforting to know that some people can still splurge…on the future of their nostrils. Ilja Gort, Dutch winemaker and producer of Bordeaux-based Tulipe Wines has insured his nose with Lloyd’s of London. Lloyd’s is the leader in writing insurance policies that specialise in people and their parts: Gort’s......