Sarah Sands, recently appointed as Reader’s Digest editor from the Telegraph, has set about giving the magazine a new look. ‘We would all like to learn more, to live fully and to seek sanctuary in the glow of the home,’ she explains.
There’s a mean-looking Fiona Bruce telling Richard Barber about her favourite heirloom, pictures of the latest Bond girl Gemma Arterton (star of TV’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles on Sunday nights) and, as always, it’s packed with titbits. How about this one to get more exercise while cooking: use a cleaver for your chopping because it’s heavier than a knife. How many fit people are going to lose fingers in the next decade because of that idea?