The first unisex changing rooms are part of new stores at Bluewater in Kent and Hastings, Sussex, but separated changing rooms will remain at the rest of their stores.more
Nearly two-thirds of the UK's highest-paid people live in London or surrounding commuter towns, according to research on tax filings that highlights the yawning inequality gap between the capital and the regions.more
By 2020, everyone in England will officially be an organ donor unless they opt-out. Thanks to a new law, which was given the seal of approval by the Queen on Friday, people will now have to go out of their way to opt-out rather than opt-in.more
The St. Patrick's Day parade once again kicked off in midtown Manhattan Saturday morning. Thousands lined Fifth Avenue - many decked out in green and shamrocks - for the annual event.more
A survey of 2,000 adults found 37 per cent have a fridge that's more than a decade old, and four in 10 are still using an oven after a decade or more.
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Hundreds of new social rented homes and a dedicated women's centre will be built on the site of Holloway prison, the notorious women's jail where murderers Myra Hindley and Ruth Ellis and hundreds of suffragettes were held.more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a document that is a set of recommendations for sex education at a specific stage of child development.more
Although we can have hundreds of "friends" on the net, in practice it often turns out that there is no one to go for a coffee with. The rush of life, the lack of time and joy of small things affect the fact that we are less sociable - especially among other friends.more
A study of 2,000 men and women in relationships found many don't have the time or energy to search for recipes, trawl through supermarkets for ingredients or spend hours prepping and rustling up exotic dinners.
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Investors in cryptoassets like Bitcoin are often looking to "get rich quick", despite knowing little about the asset or doing no research before buying, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) research has suggested.more
Shadow culture secretary Tom Watson has condemned the "scandal" that the number of books borrowed from public libraries in England has plummeted by almost 100m since 2011.more
More than 8 million UK adults would struggle to cope in a cashless society, according to a major report which claims that the country's "cash infrastructure" is in danger of collapsing.more
