49 h. ago Parenting in the climate crisis: how to raise kids who care about the environment

From acknowledging big emotions to finding ways to make climate action fun, it’s important to start where your kids areChange by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.comAlthough it’s unfair, it’s young people (and the generations to come) who will have to deal with fallout from the climate crisis. So how do you talk to young people about living sustainably and raise knowledgeable kids who care about the future of the planet?Here are some tips for engaging the next generation on the environment meaningfully. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Daughter, 19, bludgeoned mum to death with frying pan to keep huge secret

Brenda Powell had spent her life helping young people and was a devoted wife and mother. But her 19-year-old daughter Sydney was keeping a huge secret from her

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3 d. ago Bikes, the Bean and Black Panthers in Chicago: Wembley to Soweto initiative 2025

After the huge success of projects across Europe, southern Africa, South America, the Middle East and the UK, the Wembley to Soweto Foundation started its US rollout in 2022. Focusing on young people affected by gangs, the charity uses photography as a catalyst to improve participants’ self-esteem and confidence and teach life skills to help disadvantaged youth into employment and tertiary educationThe backdrop of sport has been a constant in the Wembley to Soweto Foundation’s projects, and the foundation has encouraged the young photographers to reflect how their communities are shaped by football, rugby, athletics, cricket, boxing and the like.Since the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa, the charity has worked alongside the Premier League, the FA, the Olympic Games, the Cricket World Cup, the RFU and now the MLS in North America. Ultimately the US cohorts will be given the opportunity to photograph at the US Soccer World Cup in 2026 and the 2028 LA Olympics.Quiet Reflection – Th...

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3 d. ago Al Roker reveals what helped save his life after 2022 health scare

Roker was hospitalized with blood clots in his legs and lungs in 2022

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4 d. ago Woman can't believe what she finds in charity shop as people tell her to 'sell for £1m'

A woman who walked into a charity shop couldn't believe her luck after unearthing some items that could be worth a fortune - and to top it off, she was able to take it home for free

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5 d. ago My mentor and friend died suddenly while I was at work. The memory of his kindness kept me going | Ranjana Srivastava

After a serious stroke, Mike’s friends rallied around, helping to bring some joy back into his life. His death came as a shock We are going through the list of overnight admissions when my phone beeps. Expecting a medical request to do something or see someone, my chest cramps at the message.I must be sufficiently distracted for the trainee to ask, “All OK?” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The 49p food that can slash cholesterol, preventing heart attacks, according to study

A daily cup of a pantry staple could help ward off potentially life-threatening chronic diseases.

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5 d. ago iPhone users urged to make simple change to settings to 'save battery'

A tech expert is urging iPhone users to adjust a simple setting which they claim could help them save their battery life and make their phone feel like it's 'brand new'

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6 d. ago What is ‘parentese’? An expert explains the right way to talk to your baby

Learning to talk is not simply the product of hearing lots of words

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7 d. ago The deadlift difference: is this the exercise you need for an active and pain

Life is easier with a strong, flexible body – and this weightlifting move will help with everything from rearranging the furniture to picking up your groceries. You might even learn to love the barbellOne of the lovely things about getting older is realising there’s always something more you should be doing to look after your body. Did I say lovely? Obviously I meant tedious. But how you feel about it doesn’t change the facts. If you take the slightest interest in your health, and want to stay strong, mobile and pain-free in your 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond, you’ll have to pay attention to the exercises that many of us avoid in our 20s, 30s and 40s. Or, in my case, until you’re 61¾.Like deadlifts, which help with one of life’s most basic tasks – bending over and picking stuff up. Training these also involves bending over and picking stuff up – usually a barbell, but sometimes a kettlebell or pair of dumbbells. “Here’s a few things deadlifts help with,” says Laura Kummerle, a Georgia-ba...

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7 d. ago Brian Rice in brutally honest account of gambling hell that took him to the brink as Livingston coach provides counsel

Rice hasn't gambled for five and a half years and insists life has never been better - now he's helping others caught in the same addiction to seek help.

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8 d. ago Four key signs of ‘dementia’ in dogs affecting one in three pets

While there is no cure for this progressive condition, there are therapies available to help improve your pet's quality of life.

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9 d. ago Dumfries woman whose husband had massive stroke backs charity's volunteers campaign

Sheryl Herring regularly visits hospital patients in her Stroke Association volunteer after husband Bruce was given just a five per cent chance of survival in 2017.

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1 week ago ‘Death is not a mystery’: what happens to your body when you’re dying?

Experts say knowing more about death – or ‘death literacy’ – can actually help quell fears of dyingTell us: how has your sex life changed after 60?“Who would like to hear about what happens when you’re dying?”In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. Continue reading...

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1 week ago At 46, I decided to try hormone replacement therapy. This is the astonishing impact it had on me in just one month

The breakthrough came with a pine marten. These creatures have seldom helped me before in my life. But on this occasion, they were unusually obliging.

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1 week ago Blind Lanarkshire woman thanks charity which has helped her throughout her life

Freda Steel, affectionately known as “Mouse,” has been supported by Sight Scotland throughout her life.

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1 week ago BBC Death Valley star on what's 'haunted her entire life' as health diagnosis help with new role

Gwyneth Keyworth stars opposite Timothy Spall in BBC One's new drama, Death Valley, but the actress has opened up about her struggles with ADHD.

Events

2 w. ago Scots woman who dedicated life to helping others dies suddenly after heart attack

Tallat Haq had been feeling unwell with suspected food poisoning for three days before she was rushed to hospital by her concerned younger brother, Niaz, last week.

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2 w. ago A life saved and what Erin Patterson allegedly confided to friends: week four of the mushroom lunch trial

Sole surviving lunch guest watches on as Victorian supreme court hears how hospital staff ‘thought he was going to die’ from death cap mushroom poisoningWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Ian Wilkinson sat in the Victorian supreme court, only metres from the woman accused of trying to murder him, as one of the men who helped save his life gave evidence.Prof Stephen Warrillow, the director of intensive care at Austin Health, had already spoken about the deaths of three people from death cap mushroom poisoning and the particular characteristics of their illnesses; “rapidly progressive deterioration”, the organ failure and of it being “non-survivable”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lanarkshire woman climbs career ladder at children's care charity

Rhiannon Frame joined children’s charity Kibble six years ago as a trainee.

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