Dementia patients living in care homes are given just two minutes of social interaction a day
Yet spending just ten minutes with them boosts their mental wellbeing
Bile acids could prove unusual tool in battle to prevent cocaine addiction
Researchers found that the unlikely substance, released by the liver to help fat absorption, also alters the brain reward system – and can reduce the high addicts get from the Class A drug
‘Just 13 per cent of the world’s oceans can still be classified as wilderness’
First mapping of global marine wilderness shows just how little remains
Woman who signed up as Police youth volunteer at 14 has become a special constable
Elisha Greig, 19, has spent the last five years being a part of PSYV in Aberdeen.
Watercress sales soaring as Britain’s heatwave kills off competition – lettuce, cauliflower & broccoli
The strong-tasting leaf is not affected by the hot dry weather as it is watered with underground aquifers.
Tax dodging agent for ex Arsenal stars ordered to cough up £1.2 million to Inland Revenue
Tried to use collapse of his Cape Town football academy to reduce tax bill
Homing pigeons smell their way home, a new study confirmed
They remember local smells to build up a mental map to guide themselves across many miles of unfamiliar territory back to their loft.
Watch: as government makes historic cannabis announcement, one mum on how it can save her son’s sight
Sam Clark, 14, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) at just four years old, a rare genetic disorder which leads to blindness through gradual vision loss.
In Pics – People working in the world’s most extreme conditions
Photographer Hugh Brown uncovered those exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living