Vaccines prevent the spread of disease and protect people from serious illnesses. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the last week of April as “world immunisation week”, during which i

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Zipcar reverses out of Britain: Zipcar, the car-sharing group owned by US rental company Avis Budget, is leaving the British market. The UK unit swung to a £4m operating loss in 2024 from a £303,000 p

The leisure sector is but part of the gigantic services sector, which accounts for roughly 80% of UK GDP. The latter encompasses everything from professional services such as solicitors and accountant

More than two in five US adults are now classified as obese, and rates are rising across the rest of the world too. It is a chronic disease associated with a costly catalogue of long-term ill health,

ll internet users will recognise that things are getting worse online. Google searches now require scrolling through AI word soup and sponsored adverts at the top of results, while Facebook has become