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Fact or fiction? Being cold will give you a cold

Fiction: Although colds are more likely to spread during winter months, this isn’t because the chilly weather gives you colds. Colds are caused by viruses that spread through direct contact or via small droplets or aerosols in the air. One of the main reasons we see more cases of colds in cold weather is because people spend an increased amount of time inside where the warm, low humidity environment helps the cold viruses to survive in the air for longer. Staying inside also means you are in closer contact with other people who may be infectious giving you a higher chance of catching a cold. Help keep colds at bay: Honey can help suppress coughs and soothe sore throats. With its unique antibacterial properties, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, Manuka Honey is ideal if you are coming down with a cold. Eat it straight off the spoon or mixed with warm water and lemon for a soothing and comforting drink. Try a spoonful of Comvita’s Manuka Honey every morning. See comvita.co.uk

School Streets

Mums For Lungs, a grassroots clean air campaign group, are campaigning for more schools across London to adopt ‘School Streets’. The idea behind the concept is that by closing streets around schools to most motor traffic at pick-up and dropoff times, children’s exposure to pollution is limited, not to mention the extra exercise and safety measures put in place that restricting traffic around schools brings. If you would like a School Street on your road or at your school, Mums For Lungs advises residents to write to local councillors to suggest the School Streets scheme, or if you are a parent of a child at a local school, you can write to the head teacher and local councillors. Air pollution permanently damages children’s health, and awareness is generally low.

£24m to boost children’s literacy

More primary school pupils will benefit from high quality phonics and expert literacy teaching as part of new government funding. Over £24 million is set to be invested in building children’s literacy skills as the government continues to support pupils’ recovery from the pandemic and work towards the target of 90% of primary children reaching the expected standard in literacy and numeracy.

Women going through menopause lose an average of more than five and a half weeks of sleep per year, according to research from Silentnight.

Titanic has been named the UK's favourite period drama movie of all time. The 1997 blockbuster was chosen by a quarter of Brits (25%), ahead of Russell Crowe’s Roman epic, Gladiator, and Oscar-winning British film, The King’s Speech (both 18%), which rounded off the top three, according to the research by Showcase Cinemas.

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