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How long Covid risks ‘going the same way as ME’

Health
Sarah Carter

The term long Covid is familiar to all of us, yet the illness itself remains something of a medical mystery. “Long Covid ...

What is dementia? Types, symptoms, causes and treatment

Health
Sarah Carter

By the year 2040, there will be 1.7 million people in the UK living with dementia, according to the latest concerning forecasts ...

Pret a Manger’s fall from grace

Business
Robert Johnson

A high street hero in the Noughties, Pret has now put customer loyalty at risk with a subscription scheme that sometimes overpromises ...

The British scientists plotting to control the world’s weather

Technology
Laura Adams

The Reading scientists, led by Prof Giles Harrison, have meanwhile been developing a different technique, in which an electric charge is applied ...

I dreamt about being stabbed just before the attack

Entertainment
James Parker

In August 2022, two days before he was due to appear at an event in Chautauqua, a small town in upstate New ...

‘My 33-year-old anorexic daughter died by euthanasia – my husband and I stood by her’

Health
Sarah Carter

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, from medical complications as a result of the disease and from suicide. ...

The appliances that last a lifetime

Health
Sarah Carter

Matthew Marchant, who runs a home appliance repair shop in West Sussex, says that the durability of older models of Kenwood Chefs ...

How my best friend dying at 18 inspired me to campaign all the way to Downing Street

Health
Sarah Carter

As the head girl and deputy head girl of their sixth form, Ruby Fuller and Jessie Ross joked that they would take ...

We tested the water of the Thames – and the results were worrying

U.K.
William Turner

It’s strange, really, that one of our most beloved, lyrical books about English rivers should have been written in the dying embers ...

What your Easter Sunday lunch says about the dire state of modern Britain

Business
Robert Johnson

Have you noticed how much even a bag of common-or-garden carrots can set you back at the moment? The latest ONS figures ...