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Peer pressure and a ‘fear of missing out’ is driving binge drinking among students and young workers, study finds.

More than a quarter of people in the north and north-east are drinking “hazardous” amounts of alcohol every week. According to a wide-ranging new report into the state of the nation’s health, people in the Highlands and Grampian are among the heaviest drinkers in the country. But the study also reports that north and north-east... Read Full Story

Three quarters of people think the drink drive alcohol limit should be reduced, a survey found.

Women aged 16-24 have "significantly lower" levels of mental wellbeing compared to other age groups, according to annual health figures.

Reports of anxiety and self harm are on the rise, with women aged between 16 and 24 most likely to suffer lower mental wellbeing.

Skilled Migration and the UK's Creative Industries

A survey of more than 2,000 adults in the UK found one in 10 were targeted by scams that meant they had to replace their cards in the last twelve months alone, the equivalent 4.5 million cards with £2.1 billion stolen in total, according to comparethemarket.com, which commissioned the research.  In 62 per cent of cases, money was successfully removed from the account worth an average of £475.

Amid the clamour over working practices at courier firm Hermes and retailer Sports Direct, most people haven’t spotted that the British workforce is reaching a watershed moment. By the end of this year or early next the country’s band of self-employed workers will for the first time exceed the number who toil away in the public sector.

The annual Scottish Health Survey revealed this week that efforts to curb many of the nation’s bad habits have stagnated.

The number of Scots using e-cigarettes has increased “significantly” while smoking levels have descreased, new research has found.

Stoptober is back for a fifth year to encourage the nation’s remaining 7 million smokers to quit together this October.

In a survey, commissioned by Public Health England, 77 per cent of people were in favour of the law being changed so drivers cannot legally consume as much alcohol before getting behind the wheel.

Smoking rates in England fall to the lowest on record at 16.9%, says Public Health England, with experts saying e-cigarettes may be behind the decline.