Headteachers in England have described a culture of non-compliance among pupils, as talks were held to try to avert further strikes at a school in Kent where staff walked out over student behaviour.more
Loneliness does not only affect older people, as many as 65% of people struggle with it regularly. people from Generation Z, i.e. people aged 13 to 28 - showed the study "No More Loneliness". What they want most is direct contact with other people.more
Potentially toxic “forever chemicals” have been detected in the drinking water sources at 17 of 18 England’s water companies, with 11,853 samples testing positive, something experts say they are “extremely alarmed” by.more
Several tens of thousands of people marched through central London yesterday afternoon in a demonstration against anti-Semitism. This is the first such demonstration since the Palestinian organization Hamas attacked Israel, which resulted in a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents.more
Tens of thousands of people took part in the weekly solidarity march with the Palestinians yesterday to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Police arrested eight people and also detained a group that had split off from the main march.more
Footbridge named after Bernatka, Tauron Arena and the TV tower in Krzemionki will be illuminated in orange on Saturday as part of the "Orange the World" campaign to draw attention to the problem of violence against women.more
The UK's most densely populated area has been named and it's no surprise it is in London. But, this neighbourhood may not be the expected top spot, as it has beaten off some crammed full areas including King's Cross and Clapham.more
51.3 per cent of Poles believe that Sejm Speaker Szymon Hołownia will do his utmost to make the Sejm a place of substantive and cultural political debate. The opposite view is held by 39.2 per cent. - according to the IBRiS poll for 'Rzeczpospolita'.more
The old saying goes that it takes a whole village to raise a child. Such collective childcare is an invention as old as humanity. And very effective - according to anthropologists from Cambridge University. A study they conducted showed that in primitive societies, children had better - because they gave more involvement to their caregivers - care than they do today in Western culture.more
In 2020, 2,813 marriages were declared invalid in the Catholic Church in Poland - that's 1.8 percent of the total number of marriages performed that year. Less than 5 percent of those granted a civil divorce are taken to church courts, according to the ISKK report "Annulment of Marriage in the Catholic Church in Poland."more
In 2022, net net migration to the UK was 745,000, not 606,000. as previously reported - the British statistical office ONS announced today, presenting corrected data. This is by far the highest net migration since the end of World War II.more
People who stuck by Covid lockdown rules the most strictly have the worst mental health today, research has found. Those who followed the restrictions most closely when the pandemic hit are the most likely to be suffering from stress, anxiety and depression, academics at Bangor University have found.more
For the first time in Spain's history, single mothers gave birth to more children than married women in a single year, according to a study on demographics for 2022 released yesterday. Its author is the National Statistical Institute (INE) in Madrid.more
Growing numbers of people in England and Wales are being found so long after they have died that their body has decomposed, in a shocking trend linked to austerity and social isolation, doctors have said.more
Public transport users in London are failing to claim thousands of lost property items handed in every week. The transport authority moved its lost property office from South Kensington to West Ham to accommodate the rising number of objects being stored.more
Today in the USA is Thanksgiving Day, during which Americans meet for gala dinners, where the main dish is roast turkey. The holiday meal will be cheaper this year thanks to lower turkey prices, reports CNBC.
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Nearly half of UK homeowners say neighbours have prevented them parking their vehicle, a survey has suggested.
Some 48% of respondents to a poll for Churchill Motor Insurance said neighbours have blocked access to their driveway, garage or allocated parking space.more
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a popular American sex therapist referred to in the media as Dr. Ruth, has been named New York State's Honorary Ambassador for Singleness. This is the first feature of its kind in the United States. Her task will be to support people who complain of loneliness.more
A third of British employees have admitted to working in their pyjamas, a survey has found.
Employment firm Indeed surveyed over 1,000 employees and 500 employers in the UK, discovering 33% of workers wear pyjamas during shift hours.more
UK women aged 40 and older will not experience the closure of the gender pay gap until after they reach state pension age, according to a report by the Fawcett Society.more
During the pandemic, we cared less about dental prophylaxis and, as a result, the condition of Poles' teeth deteriorated even further. It is much worse than before COVID-19," alarms Dr Maciej Nowak, MD.more
The autumn and winter period is full of various respiratory infections. It turns out that every second Pole (50.3 per cent) goes to work with an infection and fever. One in three (33.2 per cent) admit that they do so occasionally, one in ten (11.3 per cent) say they do so often and 5.8 per cent very often. When asked about the reasons for going to work with an infection, Poles mainly indicate econmore
At the World Food Security Summit in London yesterday, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a new scientific initiative. It aims to intensify work on developing climate-resilient crops.more
Heatwaves in Europe observed in the summer of 2022 led to the deaths of possibly 70,000 people, according to an analysis by the Barcelona-based Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), which revised its initial estimates of mortality associated with record-breaking temperatures in 2022.more
