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An experienced Wiltshire celebrant has expanded her work with families by launching a new digital service designed to preserve personal stories and voices for generations to come. Sarah Mead, who has spent over a decade supporting families in Swindon and across the region, has unveiled My Cherished Memories, a venture focused on recording meaningful life stories in lasting digital formats. The concept draws inspiration from Sarah’s own family history. Growing up, she witnessed the impact of her father’s habit of recording relatives during the 1980s, a practice that left her with treasured memories and a strong sense of connection. “Every…
Caron Sanders-Crook, a former army professional with extensive experience in health and social care, has launched Moral Injury UK, a new initiative focused on supporting people living with Moral Injury. Often mistaken for workplace stress or burnout, Moral Injury represents a deeper psychological and emotional wound caused when personal values and moral beliefs are compromised. Moral Injury UK has been created to address this gap by offering structured identification, measurement and repair of Moral Injury, with wellbeing and ethical integrity at its core. The organisation will provide early support to individuals while also working proactively with organisations and sectors to…
Hereford-based charity platform Hope Spring eCards has announced the release of its Christmas eCards for 2025, expanding its digital offering with over a dozen animated Christmas cards and twenty festive video Christmas cards. Designed to support water poverty alleviation, the platform enables users to send digital Christmas greetings while contributing to charitable projects that deliver access to clean water. Christmas eCards are available for individuals who want to send to their friends and loved ones, and for small businesses who want to send Christmas eCards for business purposes, catering to small and large organizations, as well as faith-based groups. The…
Victoria Hargrave, founder of Beau Bronzage and owner of The Tanning Room, has unveiled Prep & Prolong, a natural body wash created to help preserve tanning results while supporting skin health. The new product officially launches on Friday 12th December and will be stocked across all Tanning Room locations, signalling the next phase of growth for the Beau Bronzage brand. Prep & Prolong was created in response to a long-standing problem Victoria has identified within the tanning industry. Many high-street body washes contain soaps, synthetic fragrances and chemicals that strip moisture from the skin and cause tans to fade unevenly.…
Droben Matchmaking, under the leadership of its renowned CEO Ksenia Droben, has reinforced its position as one of Europe’s premier matchmaking agencies by closing its 2025 calendar with an extraordinary dating experience unlike any other. The company hosted an exclusive three-day gathering at the striking Castle Hohenbocka in Germany’s Lower Lusatia region. Fifty carefully selected singles from around the world — including participants from the UK, Canada and several European countries — took part in the retreat. Designed to encourage genuine interaction, the event combined science-driven matchmaking practices with guided communication sessions and personalised introductions, all within a serene…
A growing movement of high-performing women across the UK are choosing a new science-led approach to fat loss that avoids strict diet rules, calorie counting, or constant self-control — with the next programme group launching in January 2026. The SMART RESET™, created by multi award-winning Eating Behaviour Expert Hanna Longstaff, is a 21-day structured programme built for women with full schedules, senior responsibilities and little mental bandwidth for nutrition tracking. Only 30 places will be available in the upcoming round to maintain connection, accountability and individual attention. Hanna designed the programme after resolving a personal 35-year struggle with restrictive…
The U.S. military is broken. Young Americans want to fix it.Bailey Baumbick traded a career as a national security consultant to build tech solutions for the challenges she saw at the Pentagon.Elias Rosenfeld left a job in social impact consulting to start a career aimed at revitalizing America’s industrial base.Lee Kantowski spent eight years in the Army before switching to defense tech, where he hopes to fix the military’s outdated tools. Opinion The Editorial Board a New Definition of Service By The Editorial BoardThe editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate…
new video loaded: The Battle for Warner Bros. DiscoveryNicole Sperling, a Times reporter who covers Hollywood and the streaming revolution, breaks down the competing bids from Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.By Nicole Sperling, Edward Vega, Laura Salaberry, Jon Hazell and Chris OrrDecember 9, 2025
new video loaded: Trump Says That Netflix’s Warner Bros. Deal ‘Could Be a Problem’transcriptBacktranscriptTrump Says That Netflix’s Warner Bros. Deal ‘Could Be a Problem’President Trump said on Sunday that Netflix’s proposed $83 billion merger with Warner Bros. “could be a problem” because it involves “a very big market share.”Reporter: “Should they be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?” Trump: “So that’s the question. They have a very big market share, and when they have Warner Brothers, that share goes up a lot. So I don’t know. That’s going to be for some economists to tell, and also, and I’ll be involved…
There’s a new type of money spreading rapidly across the internet, propelled by the crypto boom. It’s supposed to be worth a dollar, but it’s not issued by any government. Called a stablecoin, it is a digital currency that is subject to very little legal oversight — and its growing popularity has recently transformed it into a $300 billion market.You can use stablecoins to buy things online, make investments or send money abroad with minimal fees.Hundreds of different brands of stablecoins exist now, with more to come. The Trump family introduced its own version this year. Walmart has been exploring one,…