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If she is spending more than three hours a day on social media, she may well need your help.  A recent study has found that such girls are more than twice as likely to have depression as their male classmates. A government-funded study by UCL found that more than 25% of teenage girls who average...

Middle-aged women who are open to a bit of romance should be careful: they are in the age group which is most vulnerable to dating fraudsters. Dating fraud begins online.  You think you have met someone rather special on that dating website, app or social media.  But as your friendship develops, they suddenly hit a...

Negative thoughts can actually harm you, physically.  In a recent study by the universities of Exeter and Oxford, it was found that if you listen to that critical inner voice, you will end up with an increased heart rate, consistent with feelings of being under threat and distress. On the other hand, positive thoughts have...

Our roads are full of holes.  Potholes.  There is now a two and a half times greater chance that your car will be damaged in a pothole than there was 13 years ago. One in five local roads in England and Wales is in a poor condition, and road resurfacing has declined, according to the...

Do you ever worry about burglars, or being physically attacked? Probably.  It seems that 14 per cent of us believe we WILL be a victim of crime this year, 52 per cent of us would not be surprised to become a victim, and only about one third of us are confident that we will NOT...

Root-to-flower eating is the latest craze in many British restaurants, as more and more waste-conscious chefs aim to use the whole plant instead of throwing away the leaves. So now you can enjoy carrot tops, beetroot stems, cauliflower leaves and cucumber flowers.   As one chef says: “Most plants are all edible.  But what we usually...

It is April – time to get the family outside and enjoy more exercise!  One in three children are doing less than 30 minutes exercise a day, according to a recent Sport England report. That means that 2.3million kids nationwide do less than half the Chief Medical Officer’s recommended level of daily activity of at...

If your diet is full of fibre, you may cut the risk of early death by up to a third. Fibre is found in fruit, vegetables, wholemeal bread and pasta, as well as high-fibre breakfast cereals.  Overall, people who eat such things tend to have lower body weight and lower cholesterol levels, which in turn...

Children below the age of 14 are spending on average three hours and 18 minutes a day on their devices. In contrast, they spend about one hour and 43 minutes a day talking to their families. That works out that children are spending an average of 23 hours a week on their smartphone and other...

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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another… (Romans 13:8) Suppose you move home and then start getting letters from a debt collecting agency about a person who used to live there? You then get people coming to your house or even the police looking for someone. You apply for...

Who will your Mothering Sunday card be addressed to this year?  If that sounds a silly question, consider this: last year, for the first time in the UK, you could choose between cards that called your mother Mother, Mum or – Mom. Paperchase was the company who brought in the American flavoured ‘Mom’, and the...