Yoga, cycling and lifting weights are among the sports which make Brits happiest, according to research. A study of 2,000 adults found the average person has a glow for up to an hour and 25 minutes after yoga, and one hour and 21 minutes after cycling. And lifting weights sees them feeling happy for an… Read More »
Freedom Day on a knife edge: Just 3% of Brits infected with the Indian Covid variant were fully vaccinated but the boffins are still counselling caution PHE analysis shows only 177 out of 5,599 people who caught the mutant strain had already had both jabs Top scientists called the findings ‘incredibly reassuring’, bolstering the case… Read More »
Britain’s daily Covid cases drop by a quarter in a week to 4,802 while deaths fall by 42% to 101 – but SAGE ‘fears third wave battering Europe could spread to the UK’ and England’s R rate rises for first time since December to 0.9 No10’s scientific advisory panel SAGE claimed England’s overall reproduction rate… Read More »
Mention liver disease to most people and one word will spring to mind – alcohol. And there is no denying drinking to excess is a major cause of liver-related ill health, which is responsible for an estimated 6,000 deaths a year in England alone. But there is another, much more insidious and far less obvious… Read More »
The biggest stress factors to hit Brits this winter include being without heating or hot water, illnesses – and falling on ice. Energy bill hikes, worrying about home repairs and having to get up when it’s dark outside also topped a list of anxiety triggers as the nation braces itself for the ‘Beast from the… Read More »
It’s a scene Australians often take great joy in roasting. Sun-starved Poms taking desperate measures to cope with a “heatwave”, usually involving topless sunbaking on the nearest patch of grass and drinking pints of ice-cold beer. The joke, as we know, comes from Brits whingeing about “unbearable” temps — usually around the 20C mark —… Read More »