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The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death’ (Isaiah 57:1-2 NIV) What happens to their Facebook page when they die...

‘Everyone seems to be against something’, someone said to me the other day, and I had to agree. ‘What I can’t stand is . . .’ can be followed by almost anything, from babies screaming in the coffee shop to people who will say ‘Take care!’, junk mail, careless parkers or even someone’s accent or...

Do you mash your own potatoes?  Maybe not, if the sales figures are anything to go by:  we bought £76million worth of chilled mashed potato last year. Prepared mashed potato was popular in the Seventies and Eighties with the arrival of Smash! powder, which lost popularity in the Nineties.  Now the purchase of ready-mashed chilled...

‘Gain a child and lose a tooth’ may not be just an old wives’ tale.  Recent research has found that women who have three children are likely to have fewer teeth than women with two children.  It is thought that pregnancy hormones may be interfering with calcium absorption, thus leaving teeth more likely to decay...

Good for the NHS:  it seems that overweight folk who are given diet coaching by the NHS are losing an average of more than half a stone each. The programme includes overweight patients being sent for around a dozen classes on diet, cooking and keeping fit, costing about £435 per head over a period of...

It depends on who you ask.  Thus, 90 per cent of school leavers believe it will be possible, within 30 years.  But by the time they graduate from university, nearly half of recent graduates suspect that they will never be able to pay back their student loan.  This is according to a recent report commissioned...

It takes a year to produce a loaf of bread, from field to fork.  Yet in the UK we throw away 24 million slices of it, every day.  The average person will throw away more than half a loaf of bread every month. A recent survey by Love Food Hate Waste has also found that...

More than a quarter of adults in Britain have multiple health problems, with high blood pressure, depression, anxiety and chronic pain being among the top complaints. A recent study has found that the vast majority of GPs’ time is being taken up by patients with several conditions, and that this trend is set to worsen...

A quarter of British parents do not help their children with homework, as they fear the embarrassment of not knowing how to do the work themselves. Just one in ten UK mothers and fathers spend the equivalent of at least an hour a day assisting their children with school work.  On average, British parents spend...

You may be wasting your money on antibacterial wipes and sprays because common germs can replicate themselves in just 20 minutes, recolonising to their original mass.  And so it is that Dr Clare Lanyon, a biomedical scientist from Northumbria University, says that using wipes on kitchen surfaces is in fact ‘an absolutely redundant’ exercise. Following...

Knitting can be astonishingly good for you.  This gentle hobby has been found to lower blood pressure, reduce depression, keep your mind alert, slow the onset of dementia, distracts from chronic pain (such as arthritis), boost wellbeing, and reduce loneliness. A major study by the organisation Knit for Peace has found that knitting lowers the...

Few of us enjoy shaking hands with someone whose hand is limp – and it may be for good reason:  a recent study has found that a strong handshake means a strong heart. An association has been found between someone with a limp grip and worrying changes in their heart structure and function.  The link...