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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...

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has launched a modern-day ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign to help tackle climate change. It is asking the UK’s 30 million gardeners to consider digging up their garden paving and instead to plant trees, grass and bee-friendly flora, to help nature survive. The RHS has calculated that if every gardener in...

A third of parents and carers do not talk to their children about how best to manage money, according to Government research. Yet talking about finance has been found to help children to form good life-time money habits, according to Money Helper, which conducted the survey. Parents in London and the Northwest of England are...

If you enjoy listening to music, ever notice how the kind of music that you like changes throughout the day? According to research published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, our tastes over just one day will vary in preference to a perceived tempo, loudness, bounciness, and danceability. In late morning, we tend to...

The laws about Christmas Three simple tips for staying argument free this Christmas Beware junk food driving Be kind to your neighbour Those unwanted gifts Are you tired? How many trees are enough? Buy them books Battle of the thermostat Be kind Make it 7,000 Spending at Christmas ** Editor:  by David Pickup, a solicitor....

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. Luke 2:7 Bethlehem was busy that first Christmas. This year Christmas Day is on a Saturday, and we get two Bank Holidays on the Monday and...

For many of us, the lure of a ‘perfect’ Christmas lurks in our subconscious. Advertisers play into this desire for serving the best food, the home looking super cosy and festive and everyone wonderfully ‘suited and booted’. The reality of Christmas is, of course, always different. It often involves anxiety, tensions and arguments in between...

If you are out on the roads this month, beware: drivers who eat fast food may increase their risk of crashing cars. That is the finding of a recent study into the effects of what happens to drivers when they eat snacks high in sugar and fats. Such foods were found to cause drivers to...

This Christmas, why not make an extra effort to be kind to your neighbours? It seems that neighbourly distrust has grown more than fivefold since the summer of 2020, with one in five of us now saying that relations in our community have soured. On the plus side, there are still 25 per cent of...

What will you do with the Christmas gifts you don’t want?  Depends on your sex. It seems that women are 60% more likely than men to return or give away Christmas presents they don’t want. What are considered unwanted presents?  One list includes potato peelers, a carpet cleaner, a sleeve ironing board, a mop and...