10 h. ago Best plants to prune in April to 'stimulate healthy growth and flowers'

April sees the garden come alive with flowers and new foliage but it is also the time to start pruning your plants and shrubs to remove old, diseased or damaged growth and encourage new growth

Politics

22 h. ago The 'healthy' foods that could be driving unexplained surge in cancer

A variety of foods that make up a healthy diet contain compounds that researchers now believe could turbocharge the growth of tumors.

Society

3 d. ago Prune these three plants in April for a beautiful display of flowers this summer time

Some plants will provide gorgeous blooms later in the year if they're given attention this month

Politics

1 week ago ‘Healthy debate’ needed around risks and benefits of drive for growth – FCA boss

Nikhil Rathi highlighted how growth could benefit people and businesses long-term, but also said ‘one or two more things’ could go wrong.

Events

2 w. ago ‘More are published than could ever succeed’: are there too many books?

While some say the rise of the self-publishing model is damaging the industry, others feel it gives authors a fairer dealThe complaint that there are too many books is not a new one. “My son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end,” reads one line in Ecclesiastes, written at least 2,000 years before the invention of the printing press.Now the bestselling author Bill Bryson has added his voice to the millennia-old chorus. There are 200,000 books published annually in the UK alone, “more books than you could possibly read,” the writer of Notes from a Small Island told the Times. He is not sure that the growth in self-publishing, in particular, is “a healthy development”. He said he gets sent “a lot of self-published books, and most of the time it is just some anonymous person’s life, and it is of no interest.” Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago There’s still over one million Americans who can claim $1,400 stimulus check – here’s how to know if you qualify

IRS warns that taxpayers who fail to file their returns by April 15 could forfeit the pandemic-era relief payment

Economics

2 w. ago There’s still over a million Americans who can claim $1,400 stimulus check – here’s how to know if you qualify

IRS warns that taxpayers who fail to file their returns by April 15 could forfeit the pandemic-era relief payment

Economics