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As a leading cancer charity, working with us brings many business benefits including employee engagement and retention, mentoring opportunities and improved cancer awareness for employees. Many businesses are attracted to Macmillan because of the wide-ranging support we can offer their workforce through the challenges cancer can bring. We have decades of expertise in helping people living with cancer, and are an invaluable resource for employers who want to improve the support for their staff. As one in two people will...

Forget Kim Kardashian, Jeremy Corbyn's latest cover on GQ is about to break the internet. Black and white pictures of the Labour leader have been leaked and are already sending social media into a storm. Corbyn was revealed as the latest cover star of GQ today, but refused to be interviewed by Alastair Campbell for the men’s magazine. The editor, Dylan Jones, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he had to use an alternative interviewer, the senior commissioning editor...

An addictive Brexit Bus game has been doing the rounds on social media with Brits challenged to keep the infamous bus on track as it navigates the ups and downs of the economy. The Leave campaign have been chastised for their referendum pledges that Brexit would deliver £350 million a week to the NHS. Philip Hammond put aside more money for Brexit than the NHS in the recent Budget. In a deeply ironic twist the NHS now has just £350 million to see...

Scientists have made the world's first 'healthy' alcoholic drink from tofu whey. The team used the tofu byproduct, which is often discarded, to create new drink Sachi, and have enriched it with healthy antioxidants isoflavones. Researchers took three months to concoct the brew, which began by making fresh soya milk from soybeans. The team at the National University of Singapore (NUS) then turned the milk into the tofu, collecting the whey, to which they added sugar, acid and yeast and...

The British citizenship test was taken 125,925 times in 2016. Of those who sat it, 36 per cent failed. But how well would you fare? Also known as the "Life in the UK" test, this is one of the requirements for anyone seeking naturalisation as a British citizen, designed to prove that the applicant has a sufficient knowledge of British life and sufficient proficiency in the English language. It consists of 24 questions covering topics such as British values, history, traditions and everyday life. And...

Motivation can be hard at the best of times. In the darkest depths of winter, it can seem nigh on impossible. Here’s our guide to making it through to spring in great shape. Shorten your workouts This may seem counter-intuitive, but it could mean the difference between soldiering on through the spring or stopping altogether. Imagine yourself about to head out into the dark and the rain, now tell yourself you’ll be back in twenty minutes. Accomplishing the twenty-minute mark...

By Paul Kwatz, author of Conscious Robots Recently, Jeff Bezos announced he’d be spending $1 billion of his Amazon fortune every year on his Blue Origin Space Rocket Company. But maybe he’s making the wrong decision. 20 years ago, his conscious mind wondered whether building the world’s biggest bookstore would give him pleasure, and the answer came back from his non-conscious mind “Yes, Jeff - if you can achieve that, you’re going to feel great.” And that worked, and Jeff...

Garlic could ward off hospital superbugs, a new study revealed. Ajoene, an active sulphurous compound found in the pungent vegetable, when combined with antibiotics helps break down a bacteria's defences. Scientists hope the breakthrough could fight incurable cystic fibrosis and chronic wounds in diabetics as well as tackling MRSA and common hospital infection P. aeruginosa. University of Copenhagen researchers found ajoene destroys the biofilm of resistant bacteria and make antibiotics work again. It does not kill the bacteria but disrupts...

My father died last week. I don’t mean that to sound too dramatic: he was approaching 70 and had suffered from cancer for a few years. That said, he’d been in remission, and until what proved to be the last week of his life, he was pretty healthy. His doctor was somewhat baffled by his wellbeing, but had advised him to keep doing what he was doing, which included a martini every day at about 5.00 pm. The end was...