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Good for the NHS:  it seems that overweight folk who are given diet coaching by the NHS are losing an average of more than half a stone each. The programme includes overweight patients being sent for around a dozen classes on diet, cooking and keeping fit, costing about £435 per head over a period of...

It depends on who you ask.  Thus, 90 per cent of school leavers believe it will be possible, within 30 years.  But by the time they graduate from university, nearly half of recent graduates suspect that they will never be able to pay back their student loan.  This is according to a recent report commissioned...

It takes a year to produce a loaf of bread, from field to fork.  Yet in the UK we throw away 24 million slices of it, every day.  The average person will throw away more than half a loaf of bread every month. A recent survey by Love Food Hate Waste has also found that...

More than a quarter of adults in Britain have multiple health problems, with high blood pressure, depression, anxiety and chronic pain being among the top complaints. A recent study has found that the vast majority of GPs’ time is being taken up by patients with several conditions, and that this trend is set to worsen...

A quarter of British parents do not help their children with homework, as they fear the embarrassment of not knowing how to do the work themselves. Just one in ten UK mothers and fathers spend the equivalent of at least an hour a day assisting their children with school work.  On average, British parents spend...

You may be wasting your money on antibacterial wipes and sprays because common germs can replicate themselves in just 20 minutes, recolonising to their original mass.  And so it is that Dr Clare Lanyon, a biomedical scientist from Northumbria University, says that using wipes on kitchen surfaces is in fact ‘an absolutely redundant’ exercise. Following...

Knitting can be astonishingly good for you.  This gentle hobby has been found to lower blood pressure, reduce depression, keep your mind alert, slow the onset of dementia, distracts from chronic pain (such as arthritis), boost wellbeing, and reduce loneliness. A major study by the organisation Knit for Peace has found that knitting lowers the...

Few of us enjoy shaking hands with someone whose hand is limp – and it may be for good reason:  a recent study has found that a strong handshake means a strong heart. An association has been found between someone with a limp grip and worrying changes in their heart structure and function.  The link...

World Cup Fever From the Vicar God is able to deliver us Life is Precious Who can become a Christian? Be genuine Living in peace with others Can you find 30 books of the Bible hidden in this passage? Seen this best-watched film? ** Editor:  Paul Hardingham looks forward to the world cup… World Cup...

World Cup Fever The former Liverpool Manager Bill Shankly famously said, ‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that!’ This month sees the start of the World Cup in Russia; a truly global...

From the Vicar June 2018 The former Liverpool Manager Bill Shankly famously said, ‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that!’ This month sees the start of the World Cup in Russia; a...

God is able to deliver us ‘If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and He will deliver us from your majesty’s hand. But even if He does not, we want you to know, your majesty that we will not serve your gods or...