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 ...

Lloyds Banking Group is to shut 136 more high street branches as it accelerates plans to cut costs and digitise the bank. It will close 61 Lloyds, 61 Halifax and 14 Bank of Scotland branches ...

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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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 ...

“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 ...