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I had a bit of a Scrooge moment recently. There was a man outside my usual supermarket collecting money for the local children’s hospital. He was a bit scruffy and was holding a bucket which had some writing on I could not see clearly. Do not get me wrong, charities depend on people being generous...

So here is a challenge for you: learn a poem, by heart, by Christmas.  That is the challenge that Gyles Brandreth, actor and broadcaster has set his grandchildren this year. Memorising poetry is good for everyone.  Brandreth cites scientific research to say that memorising poetry can help keep your brain fit and well. The Duchess...

This is frightening: one in seven university students has fallen asleep with food cooking on a stove, thereby risking a potentially bad fire.  Between 2012 – 2017, 911 accidental electrical fires took place in English halls of residence. These figures, provided by the charity Electrical Safety First, help to highlight some of the dangerous quirks...

One in five people over the age of 70 in the UK eat all of their main meals alone.  This can have a detrimental effect on their health, as they tend to skip meals, or eat erratically. The survey was carried out by the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS), one of Britain’s largest volunteering charities.  Now...

After Christmas, when you begin to think about the New Year, who are you planning to go on holiday with in 2019? It seems that more of us are opting for solo holidays, in order to get away from everyone.  In the past seven years, the proportion of people going on holiday on their own...

If you are taking pictures of yourself while out and about this Christmas season, please be careful where you take them.  Bizarrely, more than 250 people have died that way in the past eight years. Most selfie-related deaths were of young men, aged on average about 23.  Now the US National Library of Medicine is...

With Christmas coming, and with it the annual ‘celebration’ of family happiness and parties and get-togethers, many of our young people will be feeling even more lonely than ever.  And that is very lonely indeed. A recent survey has found that 16 to 24-year-olds experience loneliness more often than any other age group.  Two in...

What are you doing at present?  Losing weight to be ready for Christmas celebrations, or planning that diet for early New Year?  Either way, bear in mind that crash diets are NOT a good idea.  And now a recent study has found that heart attacks and strokes are more common among people who shed and...

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They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. About 20 years ago I had been to the local war memorial on Remembrance Sunday and had been thinking...

Autumn has traditionally been a time when Christians explore the big questions about life and death. Watching the leaves fall and the nights draw in is an opportunity for all ages to think about love and loss and remember in special ways. Children ask questions about death for all kinds of reasons. It may come...

You’ve just sat down to supper and the phone rings. It is yet another cold-caller, trying to sell you something.  A nuisance to most of us, but a potential danger to hundreds of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people who might respond to the offer of ‘personal injury’ claims or ‘protection insurance’. It is reckoned...