Stephen Matthews

4 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Matthews |Darren Boyle |Rhodri Morgan |Emily Stearn

EXCLUSIVEThe world's fattest countries revealed: DEEP DIVE's extraordinary charts show how YOUR country's waistline has ballooned and where the UK and US really rank By STEPHEN MATTHEWS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR and DARREN BOYLE and RHODRI MORGAN, DATA JOURNALIST and EMILY STEARN, SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER Published: 04:44 EDT, 20 April 2025 | Updated: 04:44 EDT, 20 April 2025 Advertisement Share or comment on this article: The world's fattest countries revealed: DEEP DIVE's extraordinary charts show...

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Matthews |Darren Boyle

Officials have no idea how common first-cousin marriages are in the UK – because no-one has to keep track. Although it is illegal to marry your brother or sister, wedlock between cousins is still allowed. It means councils, who must legally register every marriage, don't track the scale of the issue. In Bradford, where cousin relationships are very common among the city's Pakistani community, council chiefs admitted that the exact proportion of marriages which are consanguineous is 'not known'.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Matthews |Oliver Price

North East Lincolnshire is the teenage pregnancy capital of England and Wales, MailOnline can today reveal. Nearly 7 per cent of all births in the council area, home to fishing port Grimsby as well as neighbouring seaside towns Cleethorpes and Immingham, were to women under 20 in 2023. Despite being the hotspot for teen pregnancies, rates have more than halved in the authority since the early noughties.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jordana Seal |Oliver Price |Stephen Matthews

For those who haven't heard of Gail's, it is a chain of artisanal coffee shops, loved by those who enjoy splurging £4.30 on an iced latte and despised by others who claim the sourdough-lined shop is actually a corporate enterprise ruining the high street. But whether you're a lover or a hater, the one thing everyone is desperate to debate is the 'Gail's theory' - a longstanding idea that Gail's bakeries boost house prices.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Matthews |Harry Lewis-Irlam

Day by day, how Covid spread like wildfire: DEEP DIVE retraces earliest days of the pandemic, with then-mystery virus killing 100,000 people and reaching every corner of the planet in three months By STEPHEN MATTHEWS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR and HARRY LEWIS-IRLAM Published: 05:27 EDT, 23 March 2025 | Updated: 05:29 EDT, 23 March 2025 Advertisement Share or comment on this article: Day by day, how Covid spread like wildfire: DEEP DIVE retraces earliest days of the pandemic, with then-mystery virus...