Smokers are being encouraged to turn to Twitter to help them quit smoking.

THE majority of teenagers are sexually active at 16, according to research which indicates that young people find sex education programmes in school “too little, too late”.

SOME of the country’s largest firms continued to show their charitable side this Christmas, despite the economic downturn.

Take-away fast food is replacing family meals for many children, fuelling an obesity epidemic, writes Mary Regan.