7 h. ago Experts explain why drinking tea may benefit you more than coffee

Experts said daily tea drinkers had a lower risk of osteoporosis

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50 h. ago ‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’: how her Turner prize victory shook the art world

As the first learning-disabled artist to win the UK’s most prestigious art award, Kalu has smashed a ‘very stubborn glass ceiling’. Her facilitator reveals why her victory is so seismic – and the secrets of her party playlistThe morning after the Turner prize ceremony, the winner of the UK’s most prestigious art award, Nnena Kalu, is eating toast and drinking a strong cup of tea. Everyone around her is beaming – only a little the worse for wear after dancing their feet off at the previous night’s party in Bradford, and sinking “a couple of brandies” back at the hotel bar. I say hello to Kalu, offer my congratulations, and admire the 59-year-old’s beautifully manicured creamy pink nails. But the interview is with her facilitator, Charlotte Hollinshead, who has worked with the artist since 1999. Kalu has limited verbal communication skills; she has learning disabilities and is autistic.As for Hollinshead, she is struggling to encapsulate the enormity of the win: for Kalu herself; for ...

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3 d. ago Pharmacist explain why it's a DANGEROUS idea to quit fat jabs over Christmas, as new study finds nearly half will take a break 'to enjoy themselves' before restarting in 2026

A pharmacist has urged Britons not to temporarily stop taking weight loss jabs over Christmas -because it can cause serious side effects when you go back on them.

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4 d. ago Social media damages children’s attention spans in a way TV and video games don’t, study finds

‘Greater consumption of social media might explain part of the increase we’re seeing in ADHD diagnoses’, experts warn

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4 d. ago What is microshifting and how could it transform the workplace

More than two-thirds of UK workers are interested in this latest Gen Z working trend. But does it really benefit staff or just reinforce an ‘always on’ culture? Helen Coffey talks to the experts to find out

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4 d. ago What is microshifting and how it could transform the workplace

More than two-thirds of UK workers are interested in this latest Gen Z working trend. But does it really benefit staff or just reinforce an ‘always on’ culture? Helen Coffey talks to the experts to find out

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7 d. ago How to manage children’s expectations if you’re short of money this Christmas

A financial expert and a parenting guru explain how parents can minimise kids’ disappointment if they can’t spend much over the festive period.

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8 d. ago Sleep experts explain the sudden jerk you experience while dozing off

An estimated 70 per cent of people will experience it at some point in their lives

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9 d. ago 80 percent of renters don’t have insurance. Experts explain why that’s a major mistake

Renters insurance can help cover the cost of replacing stolen or damaged items such as holiday gifts and electronics

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1 week ago We had our tea delivered from the Trafford Centre and it was epic

It's a new service that's launched in 10 areas of Greater Manchester

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1 week ago Dogs can die 'within just two days' of 'zoonotic disease' symptoms, experts explain

Leptospirosis is a serious and potentially fatal bacterial infection that can affect both dogs and humans

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2 w. ago Prostate cancer experts explain REJECTING plan to offer test to at

Prostate cancer campaigners left disappointed but UK National Screening Committee says inviting more men for PSA test would ‘cause more harm than good’

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2 w. ago How Tinsel Town got Rebel Wilson hooked on very British habit

Rebel Wilson revealed she embraced British culture while filming Tinsel Town in the UK earlier this year — by taking up tea drinking for the first time.

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2 w. ago ‘There were eight of us, only two are alive’: the growing crisis of arsenic in Argentina’s water

In some of the country’s poorest, driest areas, people rely on water contaminated with arsenic 60 times over safe limits, causing crippling illnesses in familiesIt’s a cloudy winter’s day in El Chañaral, an old Indigenous Wichi community now inhabited only by the Bustamante family. It lies nine miles from San José del Boquerón and near Piruaj Bajo, in Argentina’s northern Copo department.As Batista Bustamante and Lidia Cuellar drink mate tea, their seven-year-old daughter, Marcela, climbs on to her purple bicycle and heads into the scrubland. She reaches a reservoir – a puddle of greenish-brown water – and pulls a pink pair of scissors from her pocket, which she drives into the earth to extract chunks of mud. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fire safety experts explain how Hong Kong inferno spread so quickly to multiple towers

Incident draws comparisons to London’s Grenfell Tower inferno of 2017

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2 w. ago Tea and coffee drinkers turn to 55p teeth whitening strips that 'show results fast'

'Brilliant product, saw results after just one use'

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2 w. ago Stop drinking your tea this way as etiquette expert points out 1 common blunder

Famed etiquette expert William Hanson has shared a common mistake Brits are making when drinking tea – and you could be guilty of this little blunder yourself...

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3 w. ago Jeeves Again review – new Jeeves and Wooster stories by celebrity fans

This collection of new short stories about Bertie and his valet pays homage to the genius of PG Wodehouse – just in time for ChristmasAs with most of the giants of late 19th- and early 20th-century English literature, the vast majority of PG Wodehouse’s readers today are non-white. Perhaps it was brutal colonial indoctrination that ensured the modern descendants of the aspirant imperial middle classes from Barbados to Burma, with their tea caddies, gin-stuffed drinks cabinets and yellowing Penguin paperbacks, still devour Maugham, Shaw and Kipling. Perhaps they just have good taste.Wodehouse’s detractors are many – Stephen Sondheim (“archness tweeness flimsiness”), Winston Churchill (“He can live secluded in some place or go to hell as soon as there is a vacant passage”), the Inland Revenue – but for millions around the world he remains the greatest comic writer Britain has ever produced. And he clearly still sells here, as this collection of a dozen new officially sa...

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3 w. ago Let there be light: how to tackle Seasonal Affective Disorder, according to the experts

From the mood-boosting spice to know, to the smartest tech and treatments to try, the experts explain how to beat the seasonal blues

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3 w. ago Woman shares matcha tea warning after claiming hot drink hospitalised her

A Crohn's Disease sufferer shared footage from her hospital bed where she was hooked up to a drip claiming her health issue was down to her matcha tea consumption

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