A great-great-grandmother used 34 balls of wool to knit a model hospital called Knittingale to raise funds for the NHS. Margaret Seaman, 91, spent three months making the masterpiece at the bungalow she shares with her 72-year-old daughter Tricia Wilson in Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She knitted 59 figures to go inside the hospital, … Read more
Campaigners say Barclays ‘pulling wool over eyes of shareholders’ with its commitment to being more environmentally friendly By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:10 BST, 30 March 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 30 March 2020 Barclays is ‘pulling the wool over the eyes of shareholders’ with its commitment to being more environmentally friendly, … Read more
There’s a fine line between being a protective parent and wrapping kids up in cotton wool. And now an expert has claimed the latter can actually be detrimental to a child’s development because it ‘suffocates’ their growth. Dr Zoi Nikiforidou, a senior lecturer in early childhood studies at Liverpool Hope University and mother to a … Read more