Huawei, the global technology leader, has today announced the launch of StorySign, an app that will help enrich story time for deaf children and their parents. StorySign was created with experts and charities from the deaf community to ensure it is a genuinely useful tool. The app features a friendly avatar, Star, who guides children […]

Brace yourself for the battle cry for personal development. In coming weeks, with 2019 fast approaching, the media will again bombard us with the usual ‘New Year, New You’ articles. We’ll be told everything we’ve ever not needed to know by a string of experts in fields ranging from relationships, careers and even DIY. Finding […]

The average Brit will spend the equivalent of two full days getting ready for Christmas Day, a study has found. Shopping for gifts and food, decorating the home and even deciding what to wear to festive parties will see a total of 49 hours taken up with plans for the big day. Just over eight […]

Christmas puddings, carrots for Rudolph, Prosecco and Pop Up Pirate all made their way into customers’ Christmas Eve baskets, ensuring December 25th was both fun and flawless As the festive period approaches, Amazon has revealed the late purchases made on Christmas Eve 2017 via Prime Now, Amazon’s ultra-fast delivery service that allows customers in selected […]

IHG® Rewards Club reveals the average Brit celebrates Christmas multiple times during December The Christmas present most Brits can expect this year is ‘déjà vu’, according to new data by IHG® Rewards Club, the loyalty programme from IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), which reveals the average Brit will have FOUR ‘Christmases’ this year. The research found […]

Staff who are offered flexible working reckon they are more productive and take less leave than their ‘nine to five’ colleagues, according to research. A study compared the productivity of 1,500 workers who set their own hours or working location against 500 who are not. Flexible workers reckon they work more effectively than those working […]

61% of Brits admit they run out of phone battery EVERY DAY: leaving them stranded, lost or standing up their mates In an age of connection, a lack of phone battery can be jarring with 6 in 10 saying it triggers a negative emotion New research has pinpointed 2pm as the exact time by which […]

The lawless Wild West marked a unique and fascinating period in US history that inspired countless Hollywood movies and created legends from gunslingers, bounty hunters and liquor-drinking cowboys. Now a new book, out this week, sheds fresh light on the American Frontier and on the female detectives who brought the outlaws to justice. Lucy Bryson […]

With the Christmas countdown well and truly on, Amazon has revealed that on average, each Brit spends 882 hours (more than 36 days) purchasing 1,386 presents across a lifetime, according to a study commissioned to mark the launch of the Christmas Shop and Gift Finder on Amazon.co.uk. Across the average adult lifetime, Brits will receive […]