10 h. ago Walking for 15 minutes after eating has an ‘immediate effect’ and can protect your health for decades to come

Health conditions can accumulate slowly over a long period of time, ‘but if you exercise you can reverse them before they become a problem’, Dr Elroy Aguiar tells Harry Bullmore

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56 h. ago The Greater Manchester woodland walk minutes from a trendy food and drink spot

Spend a sunny day following trails through the trees and explore riverside paths

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7 d. ago Kanye West branded ‘sniveling little coward’ as he storms out of Piers Morgan interview

‘Ye did walk out, after two minutes.. because he’s a sniveling little coward,’ Piers Morgan said

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1 week ago Warning over elderly patients being left on antidepressants for decades

More than one in five over-65s are now taking antidepressants - more than double the number of 20 years ago.

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1 week ago Tim Dowling: if I wasn’t so busy doing nothing, I could be having fun

Everyone has cleared off, leaving me rattling around the house with the pets – and feeling paralysed by indecisionOne minute the house is full – when I walk in the oldest one, and his friend, and the middle one, and my wife are all fussing over a manual juicer the oldest one has brought back from a car boot sale.“What’s going on?” I say. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Underrated UK beach is one of the prettiest but there's a huge catch

This beautiful and tranquil beach is a sight to behold - once you get there - as visitors are warned of an uneven and tricky 30 minute walk to enter this slice of paradise

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2 w. ago Three ways to help the developing world survive the end of aid | Winnie Byanyima

Wealthy nations are slashing funding for essential services such as the HIV/Aids response, but poorer countries cannot absorb the impact overnightCountries across the world are cutting aid budgets, abandoning the decades-old consensus that supporting health and development is both a moral duty and a strategic interest. But the end of aid cannot mean the end of global solidarity – because our global economy is stacked against low- and middle-income countries to such an extent that they simply cannot afford to respond to global crises alone.Developing countries are drowning in debt, facing interest rates up to 12 times higher than wealthy countries. When interest rates shot up after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global south was worst hit. Low- and middle-income countries now pay $4 (£3) to the richest in the global north for every $1 they receive in aid. Thirty-four of Africa’s 54 countries spend more on debt than on healthcare. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Anger as Met moves local police in Rotherhithe to site 45 minute walk away

Local politicians claim senior officers were offered the opportunity to open a temporary hub nearby but snubbed the idea

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3 w. ago UK train station with a platform that's so long it takes 10 minutes to walk down

The platform at Colchester Railway Station in Essex is the longest in the UK, stretching a total of 620 metres from one end to the other - or around 10 minutes to walk across

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4 w. ago ‘I needed heart surgery after swimming in polluted water’: Health warning as sewage spills reach decade

As a result of sewage pollution, 331 people have seen a doctor with chest infections and gastroenteritis and some were hospitalised

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