Handing back the clementine tart to my dinner party hostess, I tell her I want a bigger slice. Hardly polite behaviour, especially as I’ve just told her that when we first met, I thought she was a b***h. But after six glasses of wine, I don’t care.
Alcohol has freed me from my responsibilities as a friend, mother, daughter and wife so that I’m guffawing at my own wisecracks, impervious to the feelings of others. In my drunken parallel world,
As a medically trained science writer and, until recently, long-term insomniac, I’ve long been fascinated by sleep — why it’s so important to our health and the best ways to get more of it.
The latest science clearly shows that good sleep is a powerful way to protect us against heart disease, diabetes, depression and even dementia, which is bad news for the estimated three quarters of all UK adults who sleep fitfully, and potentially disastrous for the one in
Coleen Rooney arrives at the YOU photo shoot on a rainy Manchester morning. She’s just done the school run (from her £20 million Cheshire mansion) with her three youngest sons Klay, ten, Kit, seven, and Cass, five (Kai, 14, takes the bus to his secondary school).
On weekdays she doesn’t do breakfast – just a ginger and turmeric shot and some hot water with ginger, lemon and honey, before a coffee. ‘Maybe at the weekend I’ll have some scrambled eggs.’
‘Do you ever get bored of the view?’ I asked the lady from guest relations who came to our table during breakfast to check that everything was satisfactory.
In retrospect, it may have been a silly question. Because we were at London’s Shangri-La The Shard, where the panoramas, in every direction, have potent boredom-zapping qualities.
It’s a veritable hotel in the clouds, occupying floors 34 to 52 of The Shard, which at 309 metres (1,016ft) in height, is the tallest
A fascinating map today laid bare the UK’s bird flu hotspots amid fears the killer virus could jump to humans.
Since the nation’s biggest ever outbreak began in October 2021, more than 1,000 infections of the killer H5N1 strain have been detected among wild birds.
Experts are concerned recently spotted cases among Britain’s foxes, otters and seals are a sign that the virus is gaining mutations that could help it infect humans more easily.
Officials yesterday confirmed that they are
