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It is the day of the annual village fete. The weather is nice, there is a good turnout, you won a cake at the guess the vicar’s weight competition, but something awful happens. Someone is injured near a ride and an ambulance attends. You were assured the ride had its own insurance. It is suggested...

This month thousands of school leavers will be anticipating with excitement the prospect of going on in October to what they insist on calling ‘Uni’.  School is over, exams have been taken, required grades achieved, courses chosen and now the promised land of fun and freedom and a bit of study lies ahead. But among...

You may want to keep your toddler quiet and amused, but you risk damaging their mental health if you allow them to go onto social media from as young as two years old. That is the stark warning from Barnardo’s. In a recent report the charity expressed alarm that so many parents are now using...

How is Prince Harry doing? Well, life is a bit different for him, but on average, around one in five British men loses close friends within a year of becoming a father. Yet young parents struggle more with parenthood without the support of close friends, according to the Movember Foundation charity.  It urges men to...

The old adage that dogs take after their owners may be more true that we realise.   For a new study has found that when dog-owners suffer from on-going anxiety, so do their dogs. Scientists measured the concentration of cortisol, a stress hormone, by taking a few centimetres of hair from a number of dogs and...

When a close friend dies, it hurts. Very much.  But now an analysis of bereaved people has found that women suffer more, emotionally and socially, than men do, when they lose a close friend. Women friends can take up to four years to recover, probably because women tend to share tighter ‘socio-emotional’ bonds with one...

Going on holiday with the parents this year?  If they are elderly, you might want to use the time to keep an eye out for any signs of depression or dementia. It is not a cheerful thing to do on holiday, but one which is recommended by NHS England’s national clinical director for dementia and...

Children who grow up in the city are nearly four times more lonely than those who grow up in the countryside. That is the finding of a recent official study into childhood loneliness.  It found that 19.5 per cent of children in cities report ‘often’ feeling lonely, as opposed to just five per cent in...

It was probably about £1,000 on either Amazon or eBay, according to a new study. Ofcom’s Online National report, which surveys the UK’s online habits and attitudes, estimates that online retailers made £1,094 per capita in 2018. The media regulator also revealed that, on average, we each spent about 50 whole days a year online...

Our eyes are ten times more sensitive to UV light than our skin, and eye damage from UV light builds up and can lead to cataracts and age-related macular degeneration – the UK’s biggest cause of blindness. No wonder, then, that the Eyecare Trust has urged parents to take care. Children’s eyes have bigger pupils...

Nowadays, one in ten of us is using cash only once a month.  That is a 60 per cent rise in the use of our cards in just a year, according to a recent report. But UK Finance, a trade association, reports that overall, we still used cash for about 28 per cent of our...

Newlyweds today are more likely to stay married than their parent were. It seems that young couples are taking the commitment more seriously than did their parents, with only 35 per cent likely to divorce, as opposed to 44 per cent in 1986. The Office of National Statistics reports that couples who married in 1963...