The NSPCC Childline service delivered almost 5,000 loneliness-related counselling sessions to children last year, with Childline director, Shaun Friel, describing the fact that so many children ...

Households concerned about their finances this year have had another dose of unwelcome news, with annual water bills set to rise by an average of £123 from 1 April. The rise, confirmed by industry ...

According to its modelling, the JRF said none of the nine English regions are likely to see a fall in child poverty over the four years to January 2029 ... released last year, showed the estimated ...

The country’s benchmark 10-year sovereign yield has fallen from more than 2.5 per cent at the start of last January to about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of 2025, sparking warnings of ...

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So yeah, we may have difficulty achieving the six percent for the full year but we’ll see,” he added. The Development Budget Coordination Committee had already previously adjusted its GDP ...

Lunar New Year is a festival beyond compare. Technically it’s a week—determined by the lunar calendar but always late January to mid-February—but for many, Chunjie (Spring Festival ...

And once the calendar year is complete, a physical planner becomes an artifact — a time capsule, if you will — of its happenings. Leafing through the well-loved Hobonichi Techo planners I ...

In 2025, Lunar New Year’s day falls on 29 January, inaugurating the Year of the Snake. But did you know that the week prior to it is known as xiao nian, or “little new year”, during which ...

“Artificial intelligence” has lost out to “Kindness” as the 2024 Children’s Word of the Year. More than 3,000 children across the UK aged six to 14 were asked for their word of the ...

The report said AI chatbot apps saw the biggest surge in interest from consumers during last year, with time spent in those apps exceeding 7.7 billion hours, while apps mentioning “AI” were ...