Lifestyle

Nowadays, many people find themselves without a partner for this single reason: high expectations. This happens because since we were children, movies and television series have insisted that you have to live love romantically and you have to find your better half; 'the One'. Along with aspirational living (TV selling us stuff we can't afford and can live without), this is another example of how television has ruined our lives, or more specifically our love lives. This romanticism, unfortunately, is not...

A community based therapeutic counselling service, Your Space, is working with groups and individuals to improve their mental health and resilience in East London. Based in Newham, one of the most deprived boroughs in the UK, Your Space provides vital services to vulnerable people to promote and facilitate better mental health, tackle isolation and loneliness and empower service users to regain confidence. A key offering is Walk and Talk, a weekly walking therapy group for any local community members in...

Of the five upcoming billion dollar industries unveiled by Syed Irfan Ajmal in Business.com at the start of the year - virtual reality, big data, online retail, IOT and the sharing economy - one seemed to mysteriously slip his mind - Sperm. The global sperm bank market is expected to reach a value of USD 4.96 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Although the market is largely confined to North America due to the large...

At peak times, there are more than 543 trains hurtling around beneath our feet. As the oldest underground transport system in the world, The London Underground has seen the number of passengers passing through it’s 270 stations increase beyond measure. Today our tubes and trains creak under the weight of 1.34 billion passengers each year. The Underground just wasn’t built for that number of people. London’s population is growing at an astounding rate, and is expecting to reach 9.8 million...

It's best not to read this if you hate your job... Do you feel like you’re stuck in the rat race and have you ever found yourself daydreaming about packing it all in, working for yourself; doing something creative or meaningful? That’s exactly what brothers Ben and Harry Tucker did when they decided to ditch their jobs in property investment and modelling to set up their crazy and inspiring businesses, FallenFurniture and Plane. Their businesses is now flying high and...

Whether you are in the remain or leave camp, I believe there’s one thing we all agree on - the stress of the referendum is still with very much with us. Today, in a historic moment, Teresa May invoked Article 50, beginning the process of Britain officially leaving the EU. Naturally, everyone is feeling apprehensive about the future and what trade deals we’ll secure with our continental neighbours. What’s more, engaging in endless political debates can be more aging than...

New data from mental health charity Mind gives an insight into the mental health of 15,000 employees participating in Mind’s first ever Workplace Wellbeing Index, a brand new benchmark of best policy and practice when it comes to staff mental health. Thirty organisations took part in the Index including Deloitte, HMRC, the Environment Agency, Jaguar Land Rover and PepsiCo. According to the survey, of those staff who had disclosed poor mental health at work (2,200 employees), just over half (53...

Thousands of people went online to watch the first ever live-streamed smear test today. Anna Cribb, 40, went through the cervical screening procedure live on the ChannelMum.com Facebook page, with the video currently up to 11,000 views. 'Hey Mummy' vlogger, Anna, from Hampshire, volunteered for the live test having had her own scare and treatment to remove pre-cancerous cells after a routine smear test in the past. She said: "Having had abnormal smear test results when I was younger that resulted...

Much as the eyes are the window into the soul, shop windows are the eyes to the shop. A store’s window design is the first thing that consumers see, and therefore use to construe their first impression of the store. But there’s far more to the art of window design than pushing the best products to the very front, supermarket sandwich-style. Window displays are changing in the digital age, adapting to a world where social media is as important as...