The UK is running out of mycologists, and scientists worry this leaves the way clear for other countries to make lucrative fungi-based discoveries. Like what?

BBC News website readers have been sharing their photos of floods and bad weather in Yorkshire, Cumbria and Scotland.

All 11-year-olds in England will be able to receive a free cookbook under a programme aimed at tackling obesity.

England hand South Africa a devastating thrashing to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match one-day series.

Chips are off the menu as a new recipe book highlights varied dishes cooked in a valleys community.

Centuries from Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie help South Africa close on 242-1, 104 behind England, after four days of the first Test.

Andy and his clipper crew-mates start to pick up speed after a couple of days in the still mid-Atlantic.

The global rice shortage has prompted one leading supermarket to ration sales to shoppers. But there are plenty of alternatives, says Daniel Cook.

'Tis the season of excess, and the one time of the year when leftovers come into their own in the form of endless turkey sandwiches. Yet for the rest of the year, clearing one's plate is now frowned upon, says Lisa Jardine.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul leads the way as West Indies beat England by 61 runs at Edgbaston.

West Indies beat Pakistan by 54 runs in the World Cup opener in Jamaica.

A Devon celebrity chef says he has had an amazing response to his plan to "adopt" a Plymouth school.

The BBC's David Sillito in Bracciano reports on a week of waiting - and wondering - ahead of the wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Rediscovered favourite recipes by leading British actors are put on a pre-theatre menu.

"Super-chefs" Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal, who receive OBEs, turned to cooking from very different early careers.

How one college's focus on self-evaluation and skills has driven its success.

David Cameron has been talked of as the Tories' Tony Blair, can he do for his party what Blair did for Labour?

The perfect pre-match fuel for a storming performance.

Suffolk brewer Greene King is banning smoking at the bar and behind it at its food-led pubs after a record profits increase.

A restaurant with snail porridge and salmon poached with liquorice on the menu is named the 'best in the world'.