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As Sally Roberts’s 14-year-old son changed his top for football practice, she was shocked to see his stomach hanging over the waistband of his shorts. ‘I’d noticed he’d been getting chubbier in the face, but I hadn’t dared say anything in case it gave him a complex,’ says Sally, a 45-year-old legal secretary from London. But after bouts of lockdown and class bubble isolations spent in front of a screen, combined with months of restrictions on his group sports, his weight gain had become glaringly obvious. ‘My husband came back from watching our son train and said he couldn’t k...

Last modified on Fri 9 Jul 2021 04.02 EDT During the first year of the pandemic 25 children and teenagers died as a direct result of Covid-19 in England and about 6,000 were admitted to hospital, according to the most complete analysis of national data on the age group to date. Children seen to be at greatest risk of severe illness and death from coronavirus were in ethnic minority groups, and those with pre-existing medical conditions or severe disabilities. The findings, which have not yet been peer reviewed, will be submitted to the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (J...

Date Time Share Covid-19: Risks of severe illness in children shown to be very low in largest study yet The risk of severe illness and death from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is extremely low in children and teenagers, according to the most comprehensive analyses of public health data, led by researchers at UCL, University of Bristol, University of York and the University of Liverpool. However, catching Covid-19 increases the likelihood of serious illness in the most vulnerable young people, those with pre-existing medical conditions and severe disabilities. One preprint study...

I went to the now-gone, Andover Grammar School. So, memories of those five years remain. In the large hall and long corridors there would be many voices, loudly chatting, laughing, although we would gather in our small groups and didn’t feel it was too loud then. Yet the numbers were in their hundreds I am guessing now. There was a stage for the head teachers, deputies and others to sit on their wooden chairs. Black flowing gowns and flat black hats with tassels held them tall. In assembly the girls sat to the right, the boys to the left. How the teachers kept that silence, I wonder b...

Baby Harnidh and big brother Kirat Proud parents have shared with us their new arrivals! In this edition, baby Aurora arrived 10 weeks premature and Gareth and Kimberley Breen are happy to announce the birth of their firstborn Madelynn. Are you celebrating a new arrival in your family? Why not let our readers celebrate with you. You can fill in this online form or email Elisabeth.Wilson@newsquest.co.uk with pictures and details about your newborn, including the parents’ full names, place of birth and the delivery story. Gareth and Kimberley Breen welcomed baby Madelynn just over ...