Calls to ban trans-fats from all foods in the UK have been backed by US public health experts.

Trans-fats – solid fats found in margarines, cakes and fast food – are banned in some countries.

An editorial in the British Medical Journal said 7,000 deaths a year could be prevented by a 1% reduction in consumption.

But the Food Standards Agency said the UK’s low average consumption made a complete ban unnecessary.

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US musical TV series Glee has been named best comedy series at the Glaad media awards in the US for its positive portrayal of gay characters.

Creator Ryan Murphy revealed that Kurt, played by actor Chris Colfer, would have a boyfriend in the next series and the pair would be school prom kings.

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They are divided by geography and share no family link.

But Claire Horner, Cheryl Richards and Cathy Sidaway are united by a very special bond: they have joined forces to have a baby.

After battling breast cancer three times, Mrs Horner’s dearest wish was to have a baby brother or sister for her four-year-old son, Jack.

But doctors warned her and husband Dennis that she should not fall pregnant again as it could raise the risk of the cancer returning.

So in a remarkable case Miss Sidaway donated her eggs, which were fertilised using Mr Horner’s sperm and Mrs Richards agreed to act as a surrogate to carry the baby.

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There’s trouble ahead in Sex and the City 2 – and her name is Penelope Cruz.

The Spanish actress appears in the new trailer for the highly anticipated film as a sultry temptress who catches the eye of Mr Big, played by Chris Noth.

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw catches her husband flirting with Cruz at a bar, prompting her to question her two-year marriage.

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Arriving on the set of her new film Just Go With It in Los Angeles this week, Jennifer Aniston looked a decade younger than her 41 years.

Her stunning cream dress had men drooling and women asking: ‘How on earth does she do it?’

Perhaps it was a message for her recent co-star Gerard Butler, who was this week linked to a French TV presenter, despite rumours he and Jen are an item.

Some might argue that her fifth decade has seen Jennifer transform from the girl next door into a true screen beauty – she is nothing like the slightly frumpy girl we first saw playing Rachel Green in Friends in 1994.

Now, 16 years, two reported nose jobs, two stone lighter, and many personal trainers later, she is the woman all women want to look like. Here’s how.

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Huntington, West Virginia, is a small city nestled along the bank of the Ohio River. It has five parks, a famous college football team, dozens of churches, countless fast-food restaurants, a population of 49,000 and a mayor, Kim Wolfe, who rides a horse and delivered all of his eight children himself.

It has also been recently crowned the fattest city in the U.S., which is the developed world’s most unhealthy country.

Everywhere you look in Huntington, there are oversized people — in the cinema complex, outside Starbucks, squeezing into booths at Buddy’s All American Bar-B-Que.

A few are just large, but more are properly obese — bulging out in all the wrong places and too big to run, jog, ride a bike or even walk without wheezing in pain.

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Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James has apologised to his wife and children following accusations he had an affair.

In a statement, the reality TV star said: “I am truly very sorry for the grief I have caused them.”

He added that “the vast majority” of the allegations reported were “untrue and unfounded”.

The UK premiere of The Blind Side, due to be held next week, was scrapped after Oscar-winner Bullock pulled out citing “unforeseen personal reasons”.

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