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Trees can help prevent you getting depressed. At least, you are less likely to be on antidepressants if you live on a tree-lined street. That is the finding of a survey by the Forestry Commission, which looked for the first time at the mental health value of our forests and woodlands. Apparently, they save the...

If you are feeding the birds, please make sure that you keep their feeders very clean this winter. The UK is facing its worst ever outbreak of avian flu, and already there have been more than 40 cases around the country. The disease is thought to have been spread by migratory wild birds from Russia...

Prof Chris Witty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, wants you to use the stairs more. At the recent Confederation of British Industry’s annual conference, he told employers that they should tell their staff to take the stairs because it could mean the difference between entering old age ‘healthy or not’. He said: “in the medium to...

Now here is a great reason to do some housework: older people who regularly do household chores have better memory and attention spans than those who avoid domestic duties. Not only that, but housework is linked to superior leg strength in people over 65. That means their risk of a fall is reduced. The study,...

If you are lonely, that is understandable, and you might wish to consider doing something about it this month. Why not pay at least one visit to Christian Connection, the multi-award-winning Christian dating site? ( https://www.christianconnection.com) Since it was founded in 2000, it has brought together thousands of single Christians across the world, in the...

A New Year’s Resolution from Micah Don’t cover over your garden First time buyers You are never more than 166 metres from a stray cat How to hug somebody Open your window Help your garden, help your planet Money and children The music you love best – and when you love it ** Editor: David...

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression…? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you: To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God....

The TV presenter Monty Don has said that having pavement or tarmac on your property is one of the ‘worst contributions’ that homeowners can make to climate change. The Gardeners’ World presenter points out that hard surfaces prevent water from being absorbed into the ground, which is a growing problem because of increased flooding. Instead,...

The so-called ‘bank of mum and dad’ hit a new high in lending last year. Parents who helped their offspring to buy a first home gave them an average of £58,000. Nationally, that meant that parents loaned out about £9.8 billion, according to the estate agent Savills. The level of first-time buyers who rely on...

Britain is not short of stray cats. An estimated quarter of a million of them live in our towns and cities, according to recent research by Cats Protection and researchers at the University of Bristol. In some urban areas of Britain, there are even up to 57 stray cats per square kilometre.  It is these...

The perfect hug should last between five to ten seconds, and it should be done with your arms criss-crossed behind the other person’s back. That is the finding of psychologists who experimented using more than 100 pairs of friends. They found that when it comes to hugging someone, “more is definitely more.” It seems that...

When you have friends come to visit you, open the window for ten minutes of every hour that they stay. It will help to reduce the level of any Covid particles that may be in the air. As one medical officer for England explained: “People with Covid release virus particles into the air whenever they...