Record number of centenarians
It used to be a rare occurrence that a 100th birthday telegram from the Queen was dispatched but in the last decade this has risen by more than 70%. The huge rise has caused the Department of Work and ...
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Age of content
People in Britain are most content at the age of 58, a study revealed yesterday. Researchers found that instead of becoming more grumpy with age, we actually become happier with our late 50s as the ti ...
Sounds like sour grapes Simon Cowell?
Simon Cowell has criticised The Great British Bake Off for being boring, arguing that it is much more exciting watching an X Factor winner than “looking at a chocolate éclair at the end of the show”. ...
State pension is being allowed to “wither on the vine”
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has said that today’s inflation figures show that the state pension is being allowed to “wither on the vine”. Under t ...