Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has described how changes to the way technical education works in the region are "the single biggest thing I could do to change life chances" for local young people.
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“I just can’t shift this cold; I’ve been coughing for weeks; I feel exhausted; My brain fog is unreal.” Does all that sound familiar? Even if you dodged the worst of the lurgies doing the rounds this winter, cancelled diary dates and work sick notes are a reminder of just how many of us are still feeling the effects of what some people are calling long flu. And it’s not just runny noses and hacking coughs.
“These ‘long flu’ symptoms can also include anxiety, abnormal breathing, fatigue and headaches,” says Dr Matthew Calcasola, a General Medical Council doctor, NHS GP partner and member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. “Now that people are mixing more, wearing masks less and paying less attention to ventilation and hand hygiene, opportunities to be infected – and to pass flu-like infections on – have increased significantly,” says Dr Calcasola, who agrees there’s been an unusual number of symptoms people can’t shift.
“This year’s flu has been difficult,” adds Naomi Watt, respiratory nurse specialist at Asthma + Lung UK. “Plus there was a triple threat this winter with a bad flu season, rising Covid-19 cases and dropping temperatures.” More than 21 million people in the UK had the flu jab this winter, yet in November 10 times more people were in hospital with flu than at the same time the previous year.
It was recently reported that more working days were lost to this “winter lurgy” than Covid. In fact, in just one week in November 1,043,965 working days were lost across the UK to “cough, cold and flu” at a cost of £143 million to the economy.
Naomi feels that rising energy costs, which have left many of us shivering into spring, haven’t helped, either. “It’s made it harder for people to heat their homes to
.Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has described how changes to the way technical education works in the region are "the single biggest thing I could do to change life chances" for local young people.
Michelle Keegan is returning to the small screen this weekend in a brand new BBC drama. The former Coronation Street star ditched filming in the north, and her home in Essex with her husband Mark Wright, to head to Australia to film Ten Pound Poms.
Shares of Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch owner News Corp. rose 6.5% in morning trading after the news and book publisher posted a slight decline in revenue for its fiscal third quarter as the advertising market softened, but reported progress on cost-cutting measures it said would save $160 million this year.Shares gained $1.02, or 6%, to $17.85, in morning trading after earlier reaching as high as $18.68.
Gerry Cinnamon has revealed that he is currently in the studio recording his third album, which will be out later this year.
King Charles is gearing up for the biggest day of his life. On Saturday, Charles and Camilla will officially be crowned the king and queen of England during their coronation.
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Olivia Wilde and Emily Ratajkowski avoided each other at the Met Gala amid feud rumours surrounding the pair.There are claims Olivia is feeling "betrayed" by her friend Emily for 'breaking girl code' and kissing her ex-boyfriend, Harry Styles. Emily, 31, arrived at the star-studded event in New York City on Monday 1 May long before Olivia, reported the Daily Express. And while the A-Listers were in the same room for dinner and the Gala itself, it's understood they kept their distance.
We're counting down to the coronation of King Charles III, and what better way to get in the royally right frame of mind to celebrate than taking our fun-filled quiz? You may think you know all about the former Prince of Wales - but do you really know him? Were you aware he loves a spot of watercolour painting, for example? And despite his 'sausage fingers' (his words!) the monarch's dabbling has been good enough to make him one of the most successful living artists in the UK. Our King is also a qualified pilot and diver, even exploring shipwrecks such as King Henry VIII's flagship The Mary Rose.
So many celebs were in attendance at The Prince’s Trust Global Gala just days ahead of the 2023 Met Gala.
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The new Omicron sub-variant has begun to spread across the world.
The Proclaimers have been removed from the official Coronation playlist due to their “anti-monarchy views”.Craig and Charlie Reid – better recognised as The Proclaimers – will no longer feature on the playlist made for the upcoming coronation of King Charles III, which will take place on 6 May at London’s Westminster Abbey.Originally, their hit track ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) was included on the 27-song playlist, curated for the event by The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), however, has been revoked due to a wave of complaints centering around their “anti-monarchy views”.As described by the BBC, one of the examples of these views was demonstrated by Charlie Reid last year, after a man in Oxford was arrested for exclaiming “Who elected him?” during a proclamation event for the king in September. Reid weighed in on the moment in an interview, stating: “I thought that guy spoke for me, and he speaks for loads of other people.
EastEnders star Heather Peace said the cast is “absolutely stoked” to have raised £50,000 in memory of their late co-star Dame Barbara Windsor by running the London Marathon.The star said fundraising for Alzheimer’s UK had gone “beyond our wildest expectations” and the team, known as Bab's Army, were especially grateful for people’s donations during the cost-of-living crisis. She was joined in the challenge by co-stars including Natalie Cassidy, Lacey Turner and Adam Woodyatt.
Sir Isaac Newton's prediction on when the world would come to an end from way back in the year 1704 is causing people to fear the legendary scientist may have been right.
The British royal family is said to be taking a collective sigh of relief over Meghan Markle being a no-show for King Charles’ big day. On April 12, Buckingham Palace confirmed that Prince Harry will attend his father’s coronation, ending months of speculation about whether the Duke of Sussex would be welcome after writing his explosive memoir "Spare." His wife will remain at the couple’s California home with their two young children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. "I think there is a quiet relief that Meghan isn’t coming because it avoids so many situations," True Royalty TV co-founder Nick Bullen told Fox News Digital.
Naman Ramachandran BAFTA-winning “The Last King of Scotland” writer Jeremy Brock will adapt independent studio Wiip and India’s Roy Kapur Films’ series based on the book “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company” by author and historian William Dalrymple. “The Anarchy” will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India. The book tells the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide.
The Radford family have flown back to the UK following their luxury trip to Florida's Disney World, as mum and grandma Sue reveals they had to check 17 suitcases in at the airport. Stars of 22 Kids And Counting, Sue and Noel Radford, jetted off to Florida recently with some of their children and grandchildren, where they enjoyed time at Disney World.
Christine & The Queens has shared a new collaboration with 070 Shake – listen to ‘True Love’ below.The French singer-songwriter’s new album ‘PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE’ is due for release June 9 and will follow-up last year’s ‘Redcar les adorables étoiles’.
King Charles has had a complicated life.
A new Covid variant that could be 'more infectious' than previous strains has been identified in the UK.