They are the pop pensioners who have gate-crashed Grimmy’s party and are ruining it for the kids. A hard core of listeners over the age of 55 are threatening Radio 1’s reinvention as a cool “youth” brand by refusing to switch off the station.
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Sally Bercow: Where Celebrity Big Brother and Leveson meet
Wednesday 17 April 2013
How can you regulate someone with opinions and 60,000 Twitter followers?
Fears for elderly bladder cancer patients
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Experts have raised concerns that older bladder cancer patients are not being given treatments that could cure their disease.
On the fast track to happiness
Tuesday 16 April 2013
For one crew represented at this year's London Marathon, running is about so much more than keeping fit, discovers Ian Burrell
Thatcher discord sets the clock back 30 years
Monday 15 April 2013
I arrived back from holiday to find the country divided and inflamed once more
I hope the news that rowing caused Andrew Marr’s stroke won't put anyone off exercising
Monday 15 April 2013
As I'm a similar age I know it's easy to get carried away. The urge to prove something to oneself – which may indeed be a middle-aged male thing – is strong
Boris Johnson accused of 'hyping up' the threat of violence at Margaret Thatcher's funeral
Friday 12 April 2013
Organisers accuse mayor of using riots warning to provide excuse for pre-emptive arrests
Old before their time: Britons now ageing quicker than their parents
Thursday 11 April 2013
Poor diet and lack of exercise blamed for increase in obesity, blood pressure and diabetes
Last night's viewing - Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day, BBC2; Pop! The Science of Bubbles, BBC4
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day – the results of a transverse biopsy on the National Health Service – has a very simple question at its heart: "If we could see what this institution does in one day, what would it make us think?" My guess is that the makers of the series pretty much know the answer to this question already.
More doctors considering early retirement over workloads and pensions
Monday 08 April 2013
Only 19 per cent of GPs said that they would continue to be in the profession beyond the age of 64
Stroke factfile: the killer which affects 150,000 a year
Monday 08 April 2013
About 150,000 people suffer a stroke every year. A third make a good recovery within a month. Most however, have long term difficulties with speech or movement and the worst affected die.
Justin Poore show of temper leaves Wakefield at mercy of Sam Tomkins
Monday 08 April 2013
Wakefield scored more points against Wigan than any side this season and are bound to wonder what they might have done yesterday if they had not played for 70 minutes with 12 men.
Five-Minute Memoir: Tash Aw recalls the relentless pace of life in Shanghai
Saturday 06 April 2013
Life in Shanghai was beginning to get me down. I could feel myself tiring, feeling breathless from the pollution and breaking out in a nagging cough. The fresh autumn breeze gave way to a bitter winter chill that seeped into my bones, making my joints ache.
Am I weird for being a student who hates clubbing?
Friday 05 April 2013
People seem to think that every student likes nothing more than hitting the club of a Friday evening. Eleanor Doughty is tired of that particular cliche...
Successful, affluent older men don't retire… they just start a new career
Friday 05 April 2013
High-earning males lead the way in phenomenon of ‘unretirement’, the latest research suggests
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Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
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You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
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'Swivel-gate': David Cameron goes to war with the press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
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It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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