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Ninevah Mental Health Awareness Week – 12th – 18th May 2025 Deaf Awareness Week – 5th to 11th May Why you should draw your curtains at night (especially if you live in the country) Sleeplessness is catching An unexpected way to cut violent crime Why you need a holiday ** Editor: David Pickup, a solicitor considers...

He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.” (Jonah 4:2) I...

In May we observe Mental Health Week, at a time when sadly many of us, as a nation, are struggling. Roughly one in four of us now experience a mental health problem every year. According to the Health Foundation, for young people aged 10–24 a staggering 45% are experiencing mental health disorders. While the medical...

Deafness is more common than you might think. According to the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID), one in three adults in the UK are in some way deaf. That means that more than 18 million adults in the UK have some degree of hearing loss or tinnitus. And it gets worse. Over half...

Most of us draw our curtains at night, in order to ensure privacy. But there is another very valid reason: to help protect local wildlife. It seems that insects who live in the countryside are very susceptible to bright lights, which can badly disrupt their overall health and general behaviour. As one scientist explained: “We...

You probably already know this: when your partner can’t sleep, it is very likely that you won’t be able to, either. A recent study from the University of East Anglia has found that sleep problems are contagious. The study looked at the impact of workplace bullying on sleep, and it found that not only does...

How to get children to behave better? Feed them better. It seems that providing children with healthy diets and regular nutritional supplements can help reduce anti-social behaviour. The charity Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) puts it this way: improving the nutritional diets of a child is ‘low cost’, but ‘likely to have a high impact on...

They are more than an indulgence – a holiday can be vital for your health and mental well-being.  Here are five reasons why: Better sleep:  after two or three days on holiday, most people average an hour more of good quality sleep. And deep sleep improves problem solving and cell repair. More vitamin D: Our...

Guarding the Easter chocolate Chocolate – food of the gods! Five-minute parking rule is scrapped Almost half of all children have been scammed online Don’t step on it! When young men give you that ‘ick’ feeling What do children worry about? Lemon juice, anyone? Shut your curtains Big snakes in your house? ** Guarding the...

Was there a security tag on your Easter egg this year? If so, it wasn’t because high street bosses feared the Easter Bunny might take it. It’s that shoplifting has soared to an unprecedented amount. There were more than 20 million shoplifting incidents last year – an average of about 50,000 cases a day, according...

Did you know that the botanical name for the cocoa bean is Theobroma – which means ‘food of the gods’? Millions of us obviously think chocolate is special – on average, each of us consumes 8.1 kilograms of it a year! Certainly, chocolate makes us feel better. Some scientists believe that this is due to...

Have you ever pulled into a private car park, and then had trouble paying because of a poor internet signal, or other problem beyond your control? Last year a motorist in Derby was taken to court by a private parking company which demanded a £1,906 fine from her, because she had not paid within five...