In this time of economic hardship for many it is easy to slip into depression. Doom and gloom is reported all the time, food and fuel prices are rising daily, jobs are less secure, strikes are breaking out over pay up and down the country and homes are being repossessed every day. But take a [...]
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the UK today. It claims the lives of 12,300 women every single year, 1,300 of these cases will be in women under the age of fifty, with 44,000 women diagnosed every year in this country. That’s over one hundred women a day that will receive [...]
There are exhibitions on up and down the country every day of the year for every different type of business imaginable. There is the mundane ‘office equipment’ type of exhibition stand, a more girlie ‘wedding exhibition’ full of floaty fabrics and fluffy girls and there are the practical exhibitions such as household stuff. Exhibitions are [...]
The papers are quite happy to keep reporting all the doom and gloom of today because it sells papers much better than good news. Every day we hear of wage slumps, strikes, rising cost of fuel and food and the drop in the housing market. Of course, people are all affected by these things but [...]
With the sad news this week of the death of Sergeant Sarah Bryant whilst serving with the British Army in Afghanistan the question is once again raised about whether or not women should be in uniform, performing such risky jobs. There can’t be many people in the UK these days that wouldn’t agree with equality. [...]
Far be it from me to be the bearer of bad news but you are going to die. This is not some idle threat or some premonition of impending doom, just a basic fact of life in that yes, it does end. What we do between now and then is what counts. What we chose [...]
With house prices dropping, the property market is in serious decline. The slump is expected to continue further and this will lead to a shortfall in available homes to buy as people with negative equity will be loath to sell unless they absolutely have to. Renting isn’t a great deal cheaper than buying either and [...]