This week

Restaurants “trick” customers into eating 17,000 extra calories a year by up-selling portions. Eight in 10 upgrade orders every week. The Royal Society for Public Health found a third add chips to a meal or get a bigger coffee because of marketing.

An increase in health anxiety is being fuelled by internet searches, say doctors. Sufferers continue to fret despite reassurances because anxiety symptoms are like those of other physical illnesses. They are calling for official health anxiety guidelines to be drawn up. The county which pioneered IVF is to scrap free cycles on the NHS. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will no longer offer the fertility treatment in a bid to save €770,000 a year.