Lifestyle

Exhausted new parents will miss out on the equivalent of more than three months sleep during their baby’s first year, a study has found. The incredible extent to which new-borns disrupt sleep patterns of their mums, dads or both was revealed in a study carried out among 2,000 parents. It also emerged half of couples have had a row in the middle of the night about who should be the one to get up. And alarmingly around seven out of...

Alexia Quin, the Director of Music as Therapy International, explains how an upcoming commission into dementia and music can help change the way we care for people living with the disease. Many people think of dementia as only a problem for the elderly, and that it is not something that should be worried about. But with around 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK today (and that number set to rise to over one million by 2025, according to...

Bed and mattress retailer Happy Beds launches new website with an interactive Build Your Own Bed tool to take its growth to “the next level”. In an attempt to grow its business further, Happy Beds has launched its new website with high hopes of becoming one of the UK’s leading bed brands. The online retailer, which was launched in 2010, competes with others recognised in the industry, such as Bensons for Beds and Dreams, and currently has revenue of £3m+...

Ladies Day is the biggest day of Royal Ascot, but the real race is for punters to back the colour of the Queen’s hat. Ladbrokes even had a visit from ‘The Queen’ this morning, after she made a pit stop to her local shop on the way to the racecourse. Shop staff reported that ‘Her Majesty’ had a cheeky fiver on the colour blue. The chances of Her Majesty wearing a blue hat on Ladies Day have been set at 3/1, while yellow or...

From the remote beauty of the Scottish Highlands to the awe-inspiring White Cliffs of Dover, a new survey has pinpointed Britain’s best-loved walks. The South West Coast Path, England’s longest footpath, topped the list followed by the Lake District’s Windermere Way, which came second. The survey, which polled 1,000 British walkers on their favourite routes, placed Scotland’s Great Glen Way, which offers stunning panoramas of Loch Ness, in third spot. The South Downs Way, which stretches through Hampshire and Sussex...

 In a billion dollar global skin care industry that is fast growing to its projected trillion dollar mark, Rodan + Fields is a brand created for women by two women who have been repeatedly recognized for being among the top women entrepreneurs of this decade. It started with acne and blemish control. Today, Rodan + Fields offers a complete line of skin care that includes an anti-aging line. “We tell our patients, ‘Don’t ignore the visible signs of aging. Take...

When is skin care just right and when is it too much? It is a perennial question that women and even men who put a premium on good skin care and think that great skin is one of the best investments ask all the time. When you think about the personal attention and beauty industry fast growing into its trillionth dollar value, you can just deduce that people think that there is never enough. The growing popularity of the Korean...

These hilarious photographs shows the extraordinary lengths that New York commuters are going in order to get around a ban on dogs on the subway. New laws say you cannot take your beloved pet on underground trains in the Big Apple unless they are 'carried in a manner that would not annoy passengers.' But the rules do not state a maximum size bag which they can be carried in. So crafty pet-lovers are now carrying around their pooches in outsize...

The English DO have a stiff-upper lip – and Scots are NOT tight with their money, a study into stereotypes found. The research of 1,635 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Northern Irish people looked at preconceived notions they have about one another. Over half of English folk don't consider Scots to be tight with their cash - although six in ten people north of the border think those further south have a stiff upper lip. Fifty-nine per cent of those...