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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...

Food shortages are ‘likely’ this year Why tea is “the drink of getting things done” The cost of parking at your local hospital Who is hiding in your car? When bigger is not better Abandoned and helpless Why buying your lunch at the train station is not a good idea ** Editor:  You could make...

You might find some supermarket shelves empty in the coming months. A combination of global conflicts, climate change and transportation issues are making it harder for food producers to get their products out of the field and onto your plate. And as at the end of last month (January), it got even more complicated, with...