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A family routine and a strict bedtime could help your child develop a healthier, bigger brain. On the other hand, a disruptive family life with poor sleep patterns could mean your child has slower brain development, poorer cognitive function, and below average academic achievement. Those are the findings of a new study from Colorado State...

Nearly five per cent of young boys and girls took diet pills or laxatives in the past year.  When considering just girls alone, the figure leaps to ten per cent. Researchers found that young girls were also more likely than boys to use over-the-counter drugs, which “do not work, are dangerous, associated with unhealthful weight...

Here is something you didn’t expect: using hearing aids if you are a bit deaf can be of great benefit to your overall health. Crystal Rolfe, director of health at the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) said: “Hearing aids bring enormous benefits for people with hearing loss. Research shows that wearing hearing aids...

More than half of us in the UK own a pet.  That is 17 million households. But we are abandoning them at an alarming rate. The RSPCA warns we are offloading our animals at “unmanageable levels,” and stretching their welfare services to the limit. The turning point was the pandemic. Stuck at home during lockdown,...

Nearly one in five of us can’t.  We are so used to paying by contactless that when we have to withdraw cash or type our PIN into a card reader, our minds go blank. ‘Contactless’ payments hit a record high last year. A staggering 93.4 per cent of all in-store card transactions up to £100...

Court room drama Thanking two kinds of Mother on 10th March Where is the most generous place in the UK? What do you think of the weather forecasts?  Rules of living well after 60 The consequences of turning down a social invitation ** Editor:  David Pickup, a solicitor, considers the wisdom of going to court....

 ‘And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well…  If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles… love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…’  (from Matthew 5) I love a good courtroom drama. Some of us will remember the television series...

Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent, is the day for honouring our Mother Church, and has been celebrated since the Middle Ages. Mother’s Day is an annual day to honour our mothers, and it began in America in May 1907. In the US, Canada, Australia and Mexico, Mother’s Day is still held in May....

The fundraising website GoFundMe has praised the British public, as recent figures show that it receives a donation every second of every day. The generosity of the British can even be broken down into regions. Last year Manchester was the most generous place in the UK, with 43,135 donations, while Liverpool (36,739), Brighton (19,641), Lisburn...

It seems there is some turbulence between the Met Office and the Royal Meteorological Society. The Royal Meteorological Society has objected to the recent “deluge” of cautionary statements that the Met Office put out concerning the recent storms. It says that “probably not a day went by” during one week of bad weather, “without a...

The King is 75. Last year he did 516 engagements, and before his recent diagnosis for cancer, he had no intention of slowing down. Instead, he was keen to be ‘back up and running’ as soon as possible after his prostate operation. Was he right? “Absolutely he was – you shouldn’t slow down,” says Sir...

77 per cent of us have accepted an invitation to an activity that we did not want to attend. But according to recent research at West Virginia University, we may be over-estimating the anger and disappointment we will cause if we say no. As one researcher confessed: “I was once invited to an event that...