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It’s a dark, cold January, and we’re all being asked to stay home – luckily, the Body Coach is back to help us get up and moving! When the first UK lockdown hit and school children were sent home, the...
The UK’s lockdown rules have changed once again, but what does it all mean? Life as we currently know it has become quite confusing again with the arrival of England’s third nationwide lockdown, currently sc...
The Amazon rainforest will be wiped out over the next few decades, environmental expert warns. The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest, covering well over two million square miles. It also hap...
For the third time since March, England will enter a nationwide lockdown. New year, same old story, isn’t it? Despite the pages of the calendar flipping over to 2021, we’re getting in a throwback to 2020 qui...
The tampon tax has been abolished after a six-year long campaign. The “tampon tax” has now been abolished in the UK, after the government finally honoured a commitment to remove VAT on women’s sanitary products, made ba...
Brian Pinker became the first UK patient to receive the Oxford vaccine this morning. 82-year-old dialysis patient, Brian Pinker, became the first person in the world to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The Oxford...
Any easing of restrictions would depend on the success of the vaccine and tier system, however. With almost 80% of England set to enter 2021 in Tier 4, the year isn’t exactly set to start on the front foot. Still,...
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK. By December 20, over 600,000 people in the UK had been vaccinated against coronavirus – and that number is only going to go up with today’s...
91-year-old Margaret Keenan has just become the first person to receive both doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. In early December, the UK was the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. In...
Brexit: Deal or no deal? We finally have an answer! Four and a half years after the European referendum in June 2016 and just a week before the transition period ends on December 31, the UK and the EU have formed a trad...