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Covid vaccines being used in the UK are safe and the high levels of protection they give against the virus ‘far outweigh’ any side effects they cause, regulators say. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) today published a summary of its safety reports from the jabs between December 9 and January 24. It … Read more
Benefits cheat who swindled more than £46,000 by falsely claiming she was a single parent is caught out after she was spotted escorting her long-term boyfriend to black tie dinner Claire Bostock illegally filched extra housing benefit and support for six years She was caught when inspectors found incriminating photos on her Facebook Bostock wept … Read more
Universal Credit £20-a-week uplift could be replaced with a £1,000 one-off payment amid growing pressure on ministers not to axe extra support as No10 insists Rishi Sunak is yet to make a final decision Therese Coffey said ministers will decide ‘soon’ whether to extend the increase Chancellor has been resisting growing pressure to extend the … Read more
Growing up in a bilingual home can provide unexpected cognitive benefits later in life – especially if exposed to two or more languages from birth. Experts say infants from bilingual homes gather more information by shifting their visual attention more frequently than those in single-language homes. ‘Early bilinguals’ – those who learn a second language … Read more
Halfords benefits from lockdown cycle boom with bike sales up 34% By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:45 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 21:45 GMT, 14 January 2021 Halfords has benefited from a lockdown cycle boom with bike sales up from last year Halfords has benefited from a lockdown cycle … Read more
Survival of the fittest: There’s ‘no limit’ to health benefits of exercise for our hearts, study claims Researchers studied 90,000 UK residents with no prior cardiovascular disease They had them wear an accelerometer to measure activity levels over a week Those exercising most were 46 per cent less likely to develop heart problems than people … Read more
Survival of the fittest: There is ‘no limit’ to the health benefits of exercise for our hearts, study claims Researchers studied 90,000 UK residents with no prior cardiovascular disease They had them wear an accelerometer to measure activity levels over a week Those exercising most were 46 per cent less likely to develop heart problems … Read more
Pensioner homeowners are missing out on thousands of pounds of income by failing to claim their full entitlement to state benefits. Some 42 per cent of eligible homeowners are failing to claim any benefit at all, losing out on £830 a year on average, according to a report by Just Group, a specialist in retirement products … Read more
Elderly Britons who flout Covid rules after getting both doses of coronavirus vaccine could ‘more than offset’ the benefits, experts warn Experts fear many will stop social distancing after they have been inoculated Protection from Covid only kicks in about two weeks after the first vaccine dose It remains unclear whether the jabs stop infection … Read more
As one of the world’s great financial centres, one might think that funds for investment, capable of taking established companies and start-ups to the next level, would be easy to come by. Talk Talk, as a no-frills challenger in a telecoms and broadband market which has come into its own in the pandemic, is a … Read more