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Knowing how to manage your money is an essential life skill. The staff at Christians Against Poverty (CAP) offer some ways to help your children learn. Encourage a healthy attitude towards money Show them that money is a tool. It’s important to be in control of it – rather than be controlled by it. Let...

Are you over 65? Want to get married again? Then you are right on-trend. Recent data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that ‘silver splitters’ – those who have divorced in later life – are remarrying in ever greater numbers. In fact, the number of brides and grooms aged 65 and over has...

Sadly, we can no longer blame a slowing metabolism for piling on the pounds as we reach middle age. Extra weight is more likely to be due to our lifestyle choices of exercise and diet. A new study, based at Duke University in the US, has found that our metabolism remains steady between 20 and...

How many gambling premises can you think of near you?  If you live in a poor area, it is a certain thing that you will find it far easier than if you live in a rich area. Which means that those who have the least money in our society are being put under more pressure...

The answer sounds stupidly simple: put more vegetables on their plates. But recent research at Penn State University has found that by simply doubling the amount of vegetables on the plate, the child ate 68 per cent more of them. And adding salt and butter made little difference. While vegetables will rarely be more attractive...

Less attractive people can make themselves more attractive in the workplace if they stand tall and adopt a ‘power stance’. So says a recent study from the State University of New York, accepting that “attractive individuals have a greater sense of power than their less attractive counterparts” and thus “exhibit a more effective non-verbal presence.”...

Every time you eat a hot dog, you have shortened your life by 36 minutes. But if you eat a portion of nuts, or even better a peanut butter and jam sandwich, you will have added 30 minutes to your life. These are just some of the findings in a recent study at the University...

Most yoghurt made for children contains at least a third of a youngster’s maximum daily sugar intake. So says a recent study by Queen Mary University of London. Researchers also found that just one in 20 of the children’s yoghurts were low in sugar, while two thirds of them were rated as being medium to...

When someone splashes you Anxious neighbour? In praise of motorway services Children and tea-drinking If you can’t sleep well, then walk How much is that doggie in the rescue centre? Dress codes A call for hoodies in the office Take a break ** Editor:  David Pickup, a solicitor, considers an all-too-common problem. When someone splashes...

… a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out … Deuteronomy 8:7 You have just been to church to get some more parish magazines and take them to the village shop, as they have sold out again. It is raining hard, and the main road is flooded again. A car drives through the...

If you have elderly neighbours who are on their own, it is worth bearing in mind that many of them will have been hit by pandemic anxiety. They may feel frightened to leave their homes. Such is the finding of a recent study by the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London into the effects...

What have you got in common with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton? You have all visited the Watford Gap Services on your way up or down the M1. Back in the early 1960s, the M1 transformed the way that bands could travel, and visiting the service station was an integral part of...