Is a diet just for the New Year?
The press is full of miracle diets and a better way to a new you at this time of the year. All proponents tell you that they work, but of course the only way they can really work is if you stick to t ...
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Funeral etiquette: the dos and don’ts of saying farewell…
Many social habits and customs have changed in recent decades, and with them some of the old certainties: funerals, for instance, are often far less formal affairs than they were. So what is the right ...
This week in History
Every week we go back to re-visit some of the significant happenings that took place in living memory; just about, for some of us. To remind ourselves of how life has changed and how some things stay ...
Britain’s oldest living Victorian passes away peacefully
Britain’s oldest person – and the last survivor of the Victorian age – has died at the age of 114. Great-grandmother Ethel Lang lived through two World Wars, six British monarchs and ...