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Woodlands are more than just pleasant places to walk in and enjoy - they can be life-savers. Well, that's according to the folks at the Forestry Commission at a recent seminar for health professionals. Commission greenites claim a walk in the woods is a real stress buster, and if everyone in the UK had easy access to green space, there would be...

Next time your struggling to cope with your workload and feeling stressed out by the pressure you're under, don't go whining to your employer - just start breathing properly. An "inability to breathe correctly" is directly contributing to the stresses crippling the UK workforce, according to neuro-psychologist Dr David Lewis, who has...

Guru was charmed by the news that 33% of Brits are ruder at this time of year, 11% argue with fellow passengers and 23% drink more alcohol - according to a survey by Tripadvisor . As a likely participant of the survey, the blue-headed wise man was touched that perhaps there were more people like him out there than he originally thought. But the travel...

With councils set to lose millions of pounds of taxpayers' money in, ahem, frozen Icelandic bank accounts , Guru is delighted to hear that they are making best use of what funds they do have. North East Derbyshire District Council is reportedly introducing knitting classes - along with craft workshops - after figures revealed that it lost an average...