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A good night’s sleep can help children’s mental health – here’s how to help them get it in lockdown Stress, screens and school closures may keep them up but, as part of Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Guy Meadows is here to help 'Lockdown could provide an opportunity for teenagers to sleep according to their natural timings' One of the alarming side-effects of the pandemic, for both children and adults alike, has been increasing levels of insomnia. In July last year, The Millpond sleep clinic in London saw a 30 per cent rise in sleep inquiries from parents about children...

Hope is waning for those who hoped to stick an ice shanty on Little Traverse Bay this winter.  The same goes for nearby Torch and Elk lakes, two large inland waters adjacent to the bay. At the height of Michigan winter, all three are so devoid of ice, fishing guide Jim Chamberlin said, “you could launch a boat out there.”  On the kettle lakes of Southeast Michigan, thin ice has law enforcement officials responding to an uptick in on-water emergencies and urging residents to think twice before venturing out to skate, fish or snowmobile. And in Lake Superior, famous for its frigid tempera...

Margaret Thatcher famously lived on just four hours of sleep a night during her prime ministership. President Donald Trump was also known to be catching between three and four hours a night when he was a New York businessman (the White House probably didn’t leave much room for more). Even Barack Obama, who by comparison is well rested, sits at the lower end of the NHS-recommended bracket at just six hours of sleep. In recent years, as society...