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If you have a stressful confrontation coming up, such as a row with your partner, or at work, try and have it in the middle of the day.  That is the time when your body is functioning most efficiently, and when you can best cope with stress. Both early morning and late evening are never...

The increasing use of contactless payments is leading young people into debt.  A recent study has found that one in five Londoners below the age of 45 are struggling to pay their debts, because of the ease of making ‘tap and go’ payments. Now more than one in 10 young people are thinking of stopping...

How to have a healthy and legal New Year Dark Pills Could your dog be about to injure you? Drugs and your children Cup of tea?  Which one? Search your sofa Try running with straight arms Less beer ** Editor:  By David Pickup, a solicitor. How to have a healthy and legal New Year  Let...

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established…. The authorities that exist have been established by God.   Romans 13:1 Do you get into a muddle at times?  Then here is an important New Year’s Resolution for you: this year, have a calendar and record...

Here’s a New Year’s question for you:  is it ever really dark in your house? Environmentalists are increasingly concerned at the amount of artificial light to which we are all exposed. Last year National Geographic reported that the excess light “we dump into our environments is endangering ecosystems by harming animals whose life cycles depend...

If you are a pensioner, and you spend two hours a day learning new skills, you can reverse any cognitive decline by the equivalent of up to 30 years. That is the conclusion of researchers at the University of California Riverside.   They found that pensioners who practised a new language, or attended drawing classes ,...

The number of people over-65 who take anti-depressants has doubled in two decades.  The increase is even bigger among care home residents, with numbers rising four-fold over the same period. One in 15 people over 65 now suffer from depression, according to a recent study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.  And a recent...

Does your dog pull you down the road?  You are not alone – a growing number of people are admitting that walking their dog has become an endless tug-of-war over control of the lead.  Meanwhile more and more of us are admitting to having DRIs – dog-related injuries. Among the most painful is dog-walker’s elbow...

Could your nine-year-old be running drugs for a county line gang?  It is perfectly possible, as drug gangs are increasingly targeting middle-class so-called ‘clean skins’ to run drugs for them. A child criminal exploitation expert at Barnardo’s (Britain’s biggest children’s charity) explains that increased police scrutiny is forcing gangs to recruit fresh youngsters. ‘The youngest...

Traditional tea drinkers are becoming something of a dying breed, as ‘generation Z’ is opting more for herbal equivalents and coffee. In the year to May 2019, Britons drank 330 million fewer cups of black tea than they drank in 2018. So says a study by Unilever, which owns PG Tips. PG Tips recently lost...

If you are feeling hard up for money as the New Year begins, it may be worth checking your sofa.  It seems that there are still millions of old one-pound coins loose in our homes across the country. The Royal Mint has reassured people that they will still accept the old coins – just take...

If you go jogging, try this with your arms. It will feel strange and may look bizarre, but running with your arms straight will not slow you down. Research at Harvard University had found something expected: that when you walk with your arms straight, it is 11 per cent more oxygen efficient than if you...