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It’s a dark, cold November, 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 parents of nearly...
It has now been confirmed that England will enter a national lockdown, starting from 00:01 on Thursday, November 5. Last night, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a full lockdown across England, which will last unti...
This happens once in a Blue Moon…literally. While plans on the ground have taken a scary turn and most major Halloween events have been cancelled, nature will be stepping in to put on a spooky show of its own. If you’ve...
I’ll cheers to that. Becoming the first UK supermarket to bless us with the booze industry’s brand new ‘pink Prosecco’, Aldi is officially launching a Prosecco Rosé – and it sounds like our...
The move to the highest tier of restrictions is likely to be next week. Councillor Ian Ward has confirmed today that Birmingham and the West Midlands are set to move into the highest tier of Covid-19 restrictions. This...
In what would perhaps be the biggest comeback of the flipping century, Woolworths is allegedly returning to the British high street. Famous for selling pick ‘n’ mix and top 40 singles, a tweet posted this mo...
Lots of local businesses are getting involved to feed children over the break. Councillor Ian Ward has today announced that Birmingham City council will provide food vouchers for around 61,000 children on free school me...
It’s official, we are waving goodbye to our precious coral reefs and it’s happening faster than any of us had realised. This week, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies released a worrying report that conf...
The Holiday To Help Out scheme is here to remind us that the world really is our oyster. The tourism industry is just one of many that have suffered at the hands of Covid-19. And due to rising infections rates, quaranti...
I must be the happiest person alive. If anyone can soothe the pain after a long, long day of having an existential crisis (or less dramatically, just working from home), it’s Sir David Attenborough. And it turns o...