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4 Looks You Can Borrow from the Royal Family

You love them, you admire their poise, grace and style – and you consider yourself inspired whenever they step out in yet another dolled up ensemble. If the Royal Family is a source of fashion inspiration for you, then here are 4 simple ways you can, too, look like a modern-day princess. 1. Duchess Meghan’s Love for Neutrals By Mark Jones - CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65635766 She’s the newest member of the Royal Family, but a veritable style icon in...

How to buy a leasehold property with confidence

With the majority of property sales in London being flats, you would think that the public’s understanding of the ownership of a leasehold interest would be thorough, when in fact it is far from that. If the Taylor Wimpey leasehold housing scandal has taught us anything it is that the public are woefully uninformed as to the realities and obligations. This is also not helped by an estate agency culture that tends to shy away from informing clients afraid that...

Smoke and hashtags: Tobacco’s love of social media shows it can’t be trusted

Amid all the pouts, glitter and motivational quotes that dominate our Instagram feeds, it’s easy to miss the tobacco advertising which is slyly slipping into the background. New research has shown the tobacco giants have a new favourite marketing trick: using Insta influencers as Trojan horses to infiltrate the youth market. The findings only reinforce the view that the industry will stop at nothing to maintain sales, despite its products’ rather unfortunate tendency to kill its customers. As the world’s...

Quiz: Can you spot the symptoms of Meningitis?

A new interactive quiz has been launched after a poll of 2,000 Brits revealed 55 per cent of us are unsure what diseases and conditions we are immunised against. Despite a national vaccination programme that aims to protect all young people against a particularly deadly type of meningitis - meningococcal W meningitis and septicaemia (MenW), 76 per cent of 18-25 year olds surveyed were unaware of the disease. And only 22 per cent of people surveyed by OnePoll.com know that teenagers...

The troubles of living in the industrial times

Technology evolves everyday more and more without the public ever noticing. Every day we have machines that are faster, smarter, more resistant and efficient and it is impossible to keep up. We see the result of the advancements, but never think about how they come to be. We have smarter phones, smaller computers and even hearing aids implanted directly into our skull, but we never question the technology that makes all this possible. We have all heard about 3D printers,...

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