Manchester is buzzing this summer. Football's journey home began with England winning their opening Euros game at Old Trafford. We've hosted more than 100,000 music-lovers in just one weekend, and basked in long, sunny days, too.
25.07.2022 - 16:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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By ROB PARSONS - July 25 2022
Since March 2020 it's been two years where the nation has been plagued by uncertainty, with millions isolated from their friends and family thanks to the pandemic and services much harder to access.
But a new report has revealed that while mental health throughout England has been hit hard during the Covid-19 pandemic, the North both fared worse than elsewhere and has since recovered more slowly.
And according to the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) , the so-called 'parallel pandemic' of mental ill health in the North has cost the country a total of £2bn. Now officials are calling for central government to increase NHS and local authority funding for mental health provision in the North and provide more resources to deal with health inequalities.
Among the findings are that people in the North aged under 35 were more likely to have developed a psychiatric disorder over the course of the pandemic, an increase of 2.5% compared to a reduction of 1.3% in the rest of England.
Anti-depressant prescriptions rose by 12% in the North during the pandemic, while women from ethnic minorities in the North had the worst mental health in the country, as Sam Volpe reports for ChronicleLive .
Their mental health scores fell by 10% at the start of the pandemic and were 4% lower throughout the pandemic. Mental health fell equally in the North and the rest of the country during the pandemic (a 5% decrease), but recovered more quickly in the rest of
Manchester is buzzing this summer. Football's journey home began with England winning their opening Euros game at Old Trafford. We've hosted more than 100,000 music-lovers in just one weekend, and basked in long, sunny days, too.
Kirill Serebrennikov is already a director of note in his native Russia. Now that his last two films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in back-to-back years, he may also get the recognition he deserves stateside.
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Rae Sremmurd have shared the second single from Sremm4Life, the Tupelo, Mississippi rap duo’s fourth collaborative LP and their first in four years. On “Community D**k,” which follows the record’s June-released lead single “Denial,” they bring on ferocious Mobile, Alabama emcee Flo Milli for a tongue-in-cheek exploration of unreciprocated polyamory. Both Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi lay down swift, solid verses, but Flo Milli’s contagiously confident chorus and verse steal the show.
Raising Cane‘s is big in Las Vegas! We had never been before – until today! They have a huge new location on The Strip, which is very fancy. We show you around and, more importantly, tell you if their chicken fingers and sandwiches are any good. The talented and lovely Jen Kramer joined us for dinner and did some up-close magic for the kids. So fun! And, afterwards, we all went to see Piff The Magic Dragon‘s residency at the Flamingo! He’s come a very long way since we first met him many many many years ago doing magic at a restaurant in Sin City. Our review of his show – and more! Watch!
It's a timeless collection that last year broke records to become the first record to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart, and now ABBA's ABBA GOLD is set to be reissued to commemorate its 30th anniversary.
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pic.twitter.com/UEPoKBDf5NThe accident happened near the town of Nappanee and involved two vehicles, according to local reports. Walorski communications director Emma Thomson and a local Republican county official Zachery Potts were among those killed, local media said.Walorski, 58, represented Indiana’s 2nd district.
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Liz Truss will perform a major U-Turn on Northern Powerhouse Rail if she wins the Tory leadership race, pledging to deliver the project in full.
Another round of Covid-19 booster vaccines is being offered to certain groups of people this autumn. The national recommendations come with advice for pregnant women, immunosuppressed people and their households, carers and more.
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In a bid to stop the spread of bird flu in Scotland, conservationists have banned visitors from 23 islands.
Flo Milli has surprised fans with an early release of her debut album today (July 20), ‘You Still Here, Ho?’ – you can stream it below.Speaking about the record in a statement, Milli said: “My album creative is based on early 2000’s nostalgia. As queen of Gen-Z, this is the new age of the Roaring 20s.