The Times

The entrepreneur Lee Biggins, who left school with only a hotchpotch of Es, Fs and Gs after his exams, has enjoyed a £60 million payday from his online recruitment business. Woeful grades and later dropping out of college at 17 did not stop the former carpet-fitter from setting up a business that enabled jobseekers to upload their CVs for prospective employers to vet. The hefty payment from CV-Library, based in Fleet, Hampshire, is one of the largest dividends received by an individual business owner in recent years and represents a more than decent return on his start-up costs

Nagasaki was not the original target, and the bomb fell miles from its heavily populated centre. An investigation throws the official explanation into doubt

Great Ormond Street children’s hospital has suffered a series of power cuts that forced surgical staff to use the torches on their mobile phones during an operation. The hospital in London, which treats 76,000 children a year, has been blighted by serious infrastructure problems, including water leaks that damaged electrical systems and problems with air filtration systems. Tap the link below to read more: https://lnkd.in/ebGVeFii

“The efficiency of your posture makes or breaks your life,” says Eleanor Dalton, the author of the forthcoming book Posture Power. “Poor posture creates musculoskeletal aches and pains, such as herniated discs or ‘tech neck’. If you’re slouching your shoulders and your rib cage is compressed, you can’t breathe properly. If you’re sitting down all the time with rounded shoulders and a closed hip posture, your digestive system is compromised.” It’s not too late to fix it. “The problems people have aren’t age related, they’re to do with habits,” Dalton says. “Anybody can make huge improvements if they do the right thing for their body.” Here are five ways to improve your posture. Tap the link below to read more: https://lnkd.in/enGG8bpD

An exclusive survey for The Sunday Times found that 29% of people would vote to leave the EU, compared with 52% at the time of the referendum in June 2016. The tables have turned, according to the poll by the think tank More in Common, which found that this figure, 52%, was now the percentage that would vote to remain. Tap the link below to read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eWSrQ2Yw

From his royal debut bringing Queen Elizabeth II to the state opening of parliament in 2012 to his final public duty last month, carrying the King and Queen during President Macron’s state visit, Tyrone has never put a hoof wrong. The late Queen doted on the Windsor grey, who has served as a state ceremonial carriage horse for 15 years, working at almost every royal occasion. Tap the link in below to read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eqY4J84w

Forget the ‘freedom’ of freelancing, give me back my 9 to 5 | ✍ Lucy Tobin Happy visions of self-employment are surrendering to a harsh reality of non-stop working and job insecurity, and many are looking for full-time work again. Tap the link below to read the full story: https://lnkd.in/ek7FQMud

Less than a third of junior doctors chose to strike during last week’s industrial action and the vast majority of operations, tests and procedures went ahead as normal. According to early data released by NHS England, the number of striking junior doctors, now known as resident doctors, fell by 7.5% on the last round of industrial action, in June and July last year

The baby boomer generation, aged between 61 and 79, born in the two decades after the Second World War, have lived through a revolution in medicine, science and nutrition. Those in their sixties and seventies now will live longer, on average, than any generation that came before. 89% of people born in Britain in 1955 lived to see their 60th birthday, compared with about 63% of those born in 1905. Those statistics are backed up by the evidence of our own eyes. Many 75-year-olds today look like their parents did at 60. In the space of a single generation — those born before the war versus those born after it — there has been a remarkable transformation in health, longevity and wellbeing. 🔗 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eEj6fUwx

Scientists want you to snoop on the wasp in your garden. Why? Are they heading for your jam or your ham? It matters more than you might think. The answer could provide insights into wasp breeding patterns and the speed at which their colonies grow in different parts of the country