‘After a midlife health scare, I almost halved my body fat in just three months’
From Midlife Fitness Files: The Telegraph’s health series, where we glean advice from experts as they talk us through their weekly regime
4 April 2021 • 5:00pm
Jonathan at the gym he has been using during lockdown, made from a shipping container
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Jonathan Beech, 48, is a lawyer and managing director of Migrate UK, an immigration law firm. He lives in Wantage, Oxfordshire, with his wife Angelique and their children Elena, 17 and Olivier, 15.
In my 30s and early 40s, I would dabble in cycling and running to keep the midlife pounds off. But just before I turned 45, I was knocked down by a bad flu for two weeks. Towards the end of that, I suddenly developed a severe cough and one night, got chest pains and couldn’t breathe. My wife called the paramedics out, who thought I was having a heart attack and fitted ECG pads to test my heart. It turned out, the
Change to visa concessions may have scuppered new year hiring
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A recent change to Covid-19-related concessions for work visa applicants may have prevented some firms from hiring overseas workers from 1 January, immigration experts have said.
According to law firm Bates Wells, Home Office guidance for work visa applicants changed at 5:32pm on 23 December, when some organisations would have closed for Christmas, to state that people still awaiting a decision on their visa application can only begin working for a new employer if they have been assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) before 1 January 2021, or are applying under the new Health and Care Visa. They must also have submitted their application before their current visa expired.