Lifestyle

By Dr Barbara Kubicka With the party season looming, suddenly sequins are in vogue again. Crystal jewellery is everywhere and all things start to glitter – from lip gloss to nail varnish and high heeled shoes – all conspiring to put us in the party mood! Yet it is also a time of year when the coughs and colds start, nights close in earlier and earlier and the succession of late nights starts to take their toll. So while your...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle Let's be honest ladies (and men; more then you think these days) we worry about our skin. The huge spot that appears on the morning of a night out, teenage acne and flaky skin scare me more than anything I saw on Halloween. Occasionally I do wonder what everyone's "magic number"  is, no not sexual partners, steady on. I am talking about the number of bad skin days a woman will suffer in a year. Well...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Making a phone call is now only the sixth most common use for a mobile phone, a study has revealed. Researchers found that sending and receiving text messages, surfing the internet and even the use of the alarm clock have all overtaken phoning friends or relatives as the most common actions performed on our mobile phones. In fact almost four in ten people in the UK believe they would manage without a call function on...

By Steve Taggart The call for nominations have just opened for the 43rd Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award. The award, which counts Dame Marjorie Scardino DBE FRSA, Anya Hindmarch MBE and Dame Zaha Hadid DBE as past winners, celebrates the success of business women worldwide who share the same qualities as Madame Clicquot:  Her enterprising spirit, her courage and the determination necessary to accomplish her aims. It is the first international award created specifically to recognise the contribution that women have made...

By Charlotte Hope Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle We all want the perfect wingman, well apart from me, as I'm a woman (obvs) that would just be a date surely? But for the single man, recent research has revealed what makes the perfect partner to pull the ladies. They found the perfect "wingman" is funny, confident - and never wants to go home early, research revealed yesterday. Experts who carried out a detailed study into the intricacies of playing the field also found the...

By Steve Taggart Women would rather her fella was putting up some drawers; rather than pulling hers down. However, men just want their partner to fix it in the bedroom rather than the garden shed, a study has revealed. Researchers found that while women simply want a partner to clear up after themselves at home a little more, or make more effort in the romance department, men would rather a better sex life. Blokes would also like their wife or...

By Joshua Neil from London's survival guide BrokeinLondon.com The products you need to live and survive day-to-day in London can be expensive no matter where you go: supermarkets, shops, or markets. Most guides for finding cheap food in London will say that the cheapest produce can be found in the markets, and this might well be true. But for most of us, these markets may either be too far away or inconveniently located- or maybe it’s just that, in this busy modern...

New research has revealed the weekly shop now takes twice as long as it did ten years because Brits have become a nation of health conscious bargain hunters. Researchers found mums spend one hour and 26 minutes strolling up and down the aisles compared to the 38 minutes it took a decade ago. The added time is spent checking the packaging for health content as well as finding items that are on offer, with one in five people surveyed also...

By Christine Gatt The second week of October was Mental Health Week, a small frenzy of activity I watched with interest. I have been following the debates around NHS funding and waiting lists for mental health treatment. I’m fascinated by the continued discrimination and misunderstanding of the illnesses which fall under this umbrella. It’s not that mental health illnesses are easy to understand, far from it. More that they are so often neglected, or ignored. The term mental health implies...