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Mortgage lending leapt by nearly a quarter in May, prompting experts to predict another housing boom. Ben Thompson, from Legal & General mortgage club, said the "market as a whole is moving". He expected to see a continued spike in lending to first-time buyers. The Council of Mortgage Lenders said its data showed stronger house purchase activity than expected, revealing the highest lending for any month since October 2008.
Money	Daily Telegraph Business News June 21 2013



Borrowers with any spare cash should use it to rid themselves of as much mortgage debt as possible. A mix of record mortgage rate lows and paltry High Street savings rates means it has never made so much financial sense to use a nest egg or unused salary to overpay on your home loan instead. Pay more than you normally would to your lender each month, and you'll shorten your mortgage by years - and knock thousands of pounds off your interest bill. With many lenders touting rates of less than 3pc for a range of fixes and variable-rate deals with a 25 pc to 40pc deposit, many borrowers find monthly repayments are lower than ever before.
Money	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Shedding the pounds not only makes you healthier - it improves your memory too, scientists say. Studies have shown obese people have problems with their episodic memory - the ability to recall life events. But scientists say older, overweight women who shift weight by dieting also change the part of the brain related to memory tasks. In the latest study, by Umea University in Sweden, 20 overweight, post-menopausal women, with an average age of 61, were put on diets for six months. Before the diet, they were asked to memorise unknown pairs of faces and names. Later, they were shown the same faces along with three letters, and asked to indicate which letter corresponded to the initial of the name linked to the face. After six months of dieting the women's average weight had fallen from 188.9lbs to 171.3lbs. And with the weight loss came improved memory, reflected in brain activity patterns that showed up on MRI scans during testing. The women were better at remembering and identifying faces, while reduced brain activity in the areas associated with episodic memories indicated more efficient recall.
Health	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Britain's potholed road network could be 'brought to its knees' by another spate of bad weather, council transport bosses warned today. They said swathes of local roads could become unusable if there is more flooding or another severe winter. The Local Government Association warned of a £10.5billion repairs backlog and a 'spiral of decline'. One in five roads are now classed as being in a 'poor condition’.
Environment	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Women who regularly use talcum powder to keep fresh raise their risk of ovarian cancer by almost a quarter, scientists said last night. Forty per cent of women are thought to use talc daily for intimate personal hygiene. But the researchers warned that talcum particles can travel into a woman's body and cause inflammation, which allows cancer cells to flourish. More than 6,000 women a year in Britain are diagnosed with cancer of the ovaries. Known as a 'silent killer', because symptoms often only appear once the disease is already fairly advanced, it accounts for 5 per cent of cancer deaths in women.
Health	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Women spend more than £13,000 in a lifetime on beauty products in a bid to feel bet¬ter about themselves, accord¬ing to researchers. But the same study found that the best confidence boosters are the ones without such a hefty price tag. A compliment from a friend or partner topped the list of things with a feel-good factor. This was closely followed by having perfect hair and looking good in a photograph. A smile from a stranger, a cud¬dle and being told 'I love you' were also guaranteed to make a woman feel attractive and sure of herself, according to the study. Researchers found four in ten girls immediately feel better about themselves if they look good in a photograph. And a further 40 per cent feel great if they wake from an unin¬terrupted night's sleep.
Shopping	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Girl Guides will no longer pledge their loyalty to God and country under radical changes revealed yesterday. Youngsters joining the Guides and Brownies will instead promise to be true to myself and ‘serve my community’. The change ends more than a century of tradition and has caused an outcry from the Church of England and other religious groups….The promise has been changed 11 times in the organisation's history. Although members have been required to make a pledge to God since its inception in 1910, the phrase 'and my country' has been included only since 1994.
Young People	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Millions of savers have been left thousands of pounds out of pocket thanks to rock-bottom interest rates and the rising cost of living, experts have warned. If you put £10,000 in the bank five years ago and received average interest and paid basic rate tax, it would today be worth just £8,852 in real terms, according to financial information firm Moneyfacts. The research was published as the Office for National Statistics revealed that the rate of inflation rose to 2.7 per cent in May, up from 2.4 per cent in April. In contrast, workers are receiving average pay awards of just 0.9 per cent.
Money	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Red warning logos will appear on food considered 'bad' for health under a new traffic light labelling scheme. The colour will signal products that are high in fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt as part of an anti-obesity drive designed to encourage healthy eating. Amber and green will indicate foods deemed 'medium' or 'good' in terms of health value, according to the Department of Health and Food Standards Agency (FSA) policy. The voluntary scheme is being unveiled by the Government today and has already received backing from those supermarkets and manufacturers that had previously opposed it. Nestle, Mars, PepsiCo, Premier Foods and McCain have signed up along with major retailers such as Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, the Co-operative and Waitrose, which together account for 60 per cent of UK food sales. Other companies are now under pressure to back the controversial regime, which has been welcomed by some health and consumer groups as a major breakthrough in efforts to combat obesity.
Food and Drink	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Britain's internet giants have agreed to put extra money into the fight against sickening child abuse images - but are refusing to install automatic filters that would force users to 'opt in' to online pornography. At a Westminster summit, the top four internet service providers pledged an additional £1million over four years to the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity which works to remove indecent images from the web. Firms including BT, TalkTalk, Facebook and Google signed a 'zero tolerance' agreement on child abuse images at the summit, hailed by Culture Secretary Maria Miller as a triumph. But critics said the agreement was toothless, and the summit had taken no real action on protecting children from stumbling across pornographic images.
Media	Daily Mail June 19 2013



After suffering several soggy summers, it is not the news we were hoping for. Met Office experts who got together to discuss recent unusual weather patterns predicted yesterday that Britain faces a decade of wet summers. They blame natural warming in the Atlantic for pushing a current of fast-flowing air in the upper atmosphere, known as the jet stream, further south. Scientists say the likelihood of successive heavy downpours is increased if Britain is stranded north of the jet stream for long stretches of summer. They claim more traditional summers will return after between five and ten years. Since 2007, when forecasters suspect the phenomenon began, six of the seven summers have been washouts with higher than average rainfall.
Environment	Daily Mail June 19 2013



British people are more stressed than they were during the bombs, blackouts and rationing of the Second World War, a book claims. Modern adults spend twice as much time fretting as those who lived through the Blitz, according to psychologist Graham Price. He said: 'There's no doubt people in war-torn Britain were seriously concerned about all manner of things, from the threat of invasion down to their personal finance. 'Yet records show they were able to keep things in perspective. Resilience was then a cornerstone of the British character. 'Modern Britons, on the other hand, are consumed with anxiety, most of which is brought on by non-life-threatening issues.' Stress is among the top reasons for absence from work and has been linked to an increased chance of associated illnesses from dementia to high blood pressure.
Health	Daily Mail June 19 2013



Thousands of soldiers - including some recently back from action in Afghanistan - were axed yesterday. As almost 4,500 service personnel received redundancy letters, the head of the Army admitted the biggest round of defence cuts yet was straining morale. Only troops recuperating from a serious injury or preparing for, serving on or recovering from operations were exempt from the cuts. But soldiers who were serving on the battlefield as recently as last month could find themselves booted out of the military. Defence chiefs announced the job losses on the day Britain and its allies handed over security in Afghanistan to local forces. The war there has cost 444 British lives.
Politics	Daily Mail June 19 2013



The Government has introduced tough new health tests for those who claim they are not well enough to get back into employment. Now 1,900, or 57 per cent, out of the 3,310 Stoke-on-Trent residents receiving the old Incapacity Benefit have been told they are capable of holding down a job. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) statistics – which over assessments between October 2010 and August 2012 – place the Potteries as the ninth worst town or city in the UK for failed disability claimants. The eight local authority areas where more people were declared fit for work include Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester.
Health	The Sentinel May 28th 2013



It was reported at the end of last year that there is widespread support in England for teaching Christianity in schools, according to a YouGov poll released by Oxford University. Almost two-thirds (64%) of the more than 1,800 people questioned said that children need to learn about Christianity to understand English history, while more than half (57%) said it was important if pupils are to understand the English culture and way of life.
Education	The Plain Truth Spring-Summer 2013

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