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Does your dog pull you down the road?  You are not alone – a growing number of people are admitting that walking their dog has become an endless tug-of-war over control of the lead.  Meanwhile more and more of us are admitting to having DRIs – dog-related injuries. Among the most painful is dog-walker’s elbow...

Could your nine-year-old be running drugs for a county line gang?  It is perfectly possible, as drug gangs are increasingly targeting middle-class so-called ‘clean skins’ to run drugs for them. A child criminal exploitation expert at Barnardo’s (Britain’s biggest children’s charity) explains that increased police scrutiny is forcing gangs to recruit fresh youngsters. ‘The youngest...

Traditional tea drinkers are becoming something of a dying breed, as ‘generation Z’ is opting more for herbal equivalents and coffee. In the year to May 2019, Britons drank 330 million fewer cups of black tea than they drank in 2018. So says a study by Unilever, which owns PG Tips. PG Tips recently lost...

If you are feeling hard up for money as the New Year begins, it may be worth checking your sofa.  It seems that there are still millions of old one-pound coins loose in our homes across the country. The Royal Mint has reassured people that they will still accept the old coins – just take...

If you go jogging, try this with your arms. It will feel strange and may look bizarre, but running with your arms straight will not slow you down. Research at Harvard University had found something expected: that when you walk with your arms straight, it is 11 per cent more oxygen efficient than if you...

In Britain, we are drinking a third less beer than we did 13 years ago.  According to Marston’s, the Wolverhampton brewers, there has been a 30 per cent growth in alcohol-free and low-alcohol beer since 2016, and 40 new product launched in the last two years. The popularity of alcohol-free drinks is being led by...

It may be social media is to blame.  A research study has found that 13 to 19-year-olds who started using social media early in their lives are now showing signs of ten mental health symptoms, including anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, and insomnia.  They are also more irritable, procrastinate for longer, and reveal low self-esteem. The study...

A million more over-50s are working part-time, as compared with ten years ago.  In fact, the UK’s part-time workforce is made up of more over-50s than any other age group. Experts says that the figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that older people today seem keen to avoid cutting themselves off from the...

Scrooge Owning a dog is good for your heart Shake hands Generous Popular toys for Christmas? Those newsletters inside their Christmas card…</strong Who might be disappointed by your Christmas gift?  Will you say ‘thanks’ for your Christmas presents? **   Editor:   David Pickup, a solicitor, considers closing the office for Christmas…  Scrooge  It is Christmas...

It is Christmas Eve and you are looking forward to having a well-earned break. It is a good opportunity to catch up on reading your parish magazine, and to go to church. Your boss, Ebenezer, told you a week ago that the office would be closed over Christmas as there was no-one for him to...

Thinking of getting your family a dog this Christmas?  On the plus side, here is an interesting statistic: dog owners have a 24 per cent reduced risk of all-cause mortality and are 65 per cent less likely to die after a heart attack. Such were the recent findings of researchers at the American Heart Association. ...

If you are attending various Christmas social events this month, consider this: when you shake hands with someone, how long should you hold on for?   It seems that the ideal time is no more than three seconds. Recent research at the University of Dundee found that shaking someone’s hand in a ‘prolonged manner’ (longer than...