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The One Show's Children in Need Appeal!

The latest news about The One Show's BBC Children in Need live singing challenge!

Visit The One Show's Children in Need site here.

Difficulty paying your water bills?

Are you a family of One Show viewers having difficulty paying your water bills? If so, and you are happy to be featured on the programme, our consumer team would love to hear from you.

Contact the consumer team

Play a game!

We've featured lots of games and tests on The One Show - ranging from the seriously scientific to the downright fun!

Click here for lots of One Show games and tests.

The One Show Word Game

Is Matt Lucas telling the truth? Is Stephen Fry fibbing? Does David Mitchell know the true definition?

Click here to play The One Show Word Game.

How did you score? Let us know your score in the blog.

Headroom - Unwind your mind

Life is full of ups and downs, so the BBC has created Headroom, a campaign to help you cope with the everyday stresses and strains of life and provide a safe place to start finding answers to more complex problems.

The Headroom website helps you to explore how you feel right now. Check into MoodSpa and find out how your lifestyle could be affecting your wellbeing. You can also express yourself with easy-to-make animations using MoodScape.

Click here to visit Headroom.

My Story

This is a BBC competition for ordinary people with extraordinary true stories.

Finalists will get to tell their story in a major BBC One series. Plus five of these stories will get published and made into a book.

Send in your story and enter the My Story competition to be in with a chance of seeing your life story told on television.

Everyone has a story to tell. What's yours?

To send in your story and to find out more about the competition, visit My Story.

For more information on the My Story roadshows, click here.

Spider Quiz

This week is Spider Week on The One Show.

We're celebrating our fascinating eight legged friends.

Spider expert George McGavin has put together a fun spider quiz.

What sex is your brain?

We've been asking One Show guests and family members to take the 'Angles' task, part one of the Sex ID test. It takes about one minute to complete, and gives you a score out of 20. How do you compare?

Results: The One Show Summer Exhibition

The winners of The One Show Summer Exhibition have now been chosen.

On 1st June 2009, The One Show exclusively launched a new BBC project - Village SOS.

Village SOS is a new project from the Big Lottery Fund and the BBC.

Over the next year it will offer struggling villages the opportunity to help themselves out of trouble.

More info

The search is on for six UK villages with a great business idea that will bring new life and energy to their communities. The best ideas will receive funding of up to £400,000 each from the Big Lottery Fund.

We're also looking for six Village Champions, enterprising individuals who will work with the successful villages to launch and run their brand new businesses.

Their stories will be followed for a major primetime series for BBC One in winter 2010.

The deadline for all applications is 14th August 2009.

For further details and to apply to take part:

Visit the Village SOS website: Visit Village SOS
Call the Village SOS Helpline: 0844 8888677

Watch the video

To get you thinking, Lucy Siegle has made three films that highlight rural business success stories. In the video, below, Lucy visits the thriving community shop in Great Ryburgh, Norfolk.

Grow with Us - Chilli Update

We're growing chillies and they're doing quite well - see the pics.

Head over to our chilli page to find out more and to tell us how you're getting on. Don't forget to send in your chilli photos too.