Slimming pills bought online are "potentially dangerous" and can cause serious health problems, says the UK's medicines watchdog. Side-effects can include heart problems, blurred vision and ...

DEAR DEIDRE: ALL the talk right now is about weight-loss injections but I’m addicted to slimming pills, even though I know they aren’t the healthiest. I am a 22-year-old single woman.

Mr Shipsey said he had targeted the minister following the death of another young man who had taken the drug sold as a slimming aid. Vaidotas Gerbutavicius, 21, from Newham, London, took 20 pills ...