Celebrities, footballers and politicians have helped a south Wales family to raise thousands of pounds for a cancer charity.

The Cantor family wanted to give something back to the Velindre centre, which has helped treat 27-year-old Justine Cantor after she was diagnosed with melanoma.

It provides services for 1.5 million people and is one of the largest centres in Britain.

Heathlands Jewish Care Village in north Manchester was without power for three hours on Tuesday while essential electrical repairs were carried out.

Emergency measures were in place for a six-hour power outage at the Prestwich buildings housing close to 200 residents and the Federation of Jewish Services' offices.

But engineers were able to halve the blackout period.

An Israeli doctoral student has invented a blood test that could help put an end to the over-prescription of antibiotics.

Antibiotics are meant to treat bacterial infections, but some patients suffering from viral infections - which they do not cure - are told to take them.

An elegant grandmother with coiffed hair and pearls is stroking my feet. She is a therapist giving me a treatment called the metamorphic technique. Its devotees claim it leads to transformations in their lives - and fast.

Boris Johnson did not take his bike to the official opening of Jewish Care's £44 million Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus - and might well have regretted it.

The London Mayor arrived 30 minutes late, having travelled on the Northern line to Golders Green, but steadfastly refused to blame Transport for London.

Zvi Livneh has spent years researching lung cancer. However, despite all of his work, he is not particularly interested in finding a cure for this killer disease. Rather, the Israeli scientist wants to stop people getting it at all.

Despite a substantial drop in smoking levels in the western world, lung cancer is still responsible for 30 per cent of all cancer deaths.