Nearly a year into the pandemic and the daily story of Covid-19 is being told in numbers to an increasingly desensitised UK population. Today our Health Unmasked team is looking at the human stories behind these numbers. Megan looks at digital techniques to tackle mental health issues from home as the Calm app leads […]
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UK unpaid carers are suffering through lockdown
A national charity is warning that the latest lockdown is leaving many unpaid carers worn out, exhausted and close to breaking point. Already lockdown restrictions imposed to halt the further spread of Coronavirus are causing widespread challenges for everyone in the UK – people are having to stay at home and only go out if […]
Christmas cheer with pine needles and pedals
There’s something quite Harry Potter-ish about The Bicycle Hub in Cheltenham. For a start – its address – 278 Gloucester Road, Cheltenham Railway Station, Platform 2, Cheltenham. And while passengers on the 8.28am London Paddington to Cheltenham – calling at Reading, Didcot Parkway, Swindon, Kemble, Stroud, Stonehouse, Gloucester and Cheltenham Spa – are quite used to […]
Buy an independent bookshop book for Christmas
In a nation divided by coronavirus restrictions there is one certainty. Christmas is coming. There are 43 virtual shopping days to Christmas and when England comes out of lockdown there will be just 23 days to storm the shops for that lovely, touchy, feely, inquisitive fix of finding the right gift. Books, whether the real […]
Batsford Arboretum ‘pops’ with colour this autumn
Sticking to the 10-mph speed limit up a long, elegant, tree-lined avenue to Batsford Arboretum takes some doing. The passing countryside is ‘Cotswold gorgeous’, but the leaf fiesta ahead is the prize. This autumn, particularly it seems at Batsford, the colours are ‘popping’. And the resultant endorphins are clearing head spaces and providing sanctuary in […]
Roses Theatre Tewkesbury gets £248,391 lifeline
The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, has been awarded a £248,391 slice of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF). The county, as a whole, received almost £4m of funding; shared between 12 arts and culture organisations. The Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden recently released these awards as part of the first round of the CRF grants […]
Helena sheds light on invisible illnesses
At first glance Helena Mitchell looks like every other regular, fun loving, twenty something, concentrating on building her career and embracing life. A second glance tells a different story. Helena, 25, from Cheltenham, is battling seven health conditions. What they have in common is that they are ‘invisible’ – unless you pick a bad day […]