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1 week ago | 
financialpost.com | Emma Jacobs |Sapphire Hope
Advertisement 1Data shows younger staff — more than baby boomers — crave the connection and routine of in-person workArticle contentRosie Labbett is an office evangelist. The 21-year-old, who works in wholesale catering, finds the moments chatting before a meeting invaluable — starkly different to logging on to Teams calls. “Ideas and creativity thrive,” she says.
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2 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Emma Jacobs |Sapphire Hope
Ms Rosie Labbett is an office evangelist. The 21-year-old, who works in wholesale catering, finds the moments chatting before a meeting invaluable – starkly different to logging on to Teams calls. “Ideas and creativity thrive,” she says. “Personal relationships are so important...
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2 weeks ago | 
ft.com | Emma Jacobs |Sapphire Hope
Rosie Labbett is an office evangelist.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
gbnews.com | Sapphire Hope
A new study has found people with excessive belly fat may develop Alzheimer’s 20 years earlier - with symptoms not developing for two decades. Scans of obese middle-aged people have shown increased visceral fat correlates to higher amounts of sticky amyloid and tau tangles in the brain - both directly linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Visceral fat is stored deep within the abdominal cavity and surrounds the stomach and abdomen, as well as important organs such as the liver and intestine.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
gbnews.com | Sapphire Hope
The nuclear energy "tomb", named Onkalo, has cost the Finnish government £860 million and is said to be “a model for the entire world” in the sustainable storage of spent nuclear energy. The site - which is near Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Eurajoki - is due to be fully sealed off to all humans in 2025. Journalist Erika Benke visited the underground chamber last year, where she said it took 15 minutes of pure descent to reach the bedrock tomb.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
gbnews.com | Sapphire Hope
Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks took to Instagram to announce that his van containing 2,500 pies had been stolen as he urged thieves to embrace the Christmas spirit and give the food to community centres. The successful pub and restaurant owner from Yorkshire had been due to deliver them to a pop-up pie stall at York Christmas Market. “These guys probably didn’t bargain for the nearly ton of pies that is in the back [of the van]” he told his 141K Instagram followers.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
gbnews.com | Sapphire Hope
A 99-year-old British WW2 veteran has travelled 4,400 miles from her Canada home to ask Keir Starmer to unfreeze her pension - but the PM has turned down a meeting with her. Anne Puckridge - who turns 100 on December 20 - has had her pension frozen since 2001 when she retired and moved to Canada to be closer to her family. She receives state pension of just £72.50 a week, in comparison to the inflated current rate of £169.50 if she had stayed in Britain.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
gbnews.com | Sapphire Hope
A 57-year-old has been arrested after a video of a man driving a tractor through floodwaters in Worcestershire went viral. The recording showed a huge wave of water from the tractor’s wake damage shopfronts and homes as well as break windows in the town of Tenbury Wells. The man was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and criminal damage and has now been released on bail pending inquiries.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
gbnews.com | Sapphire Hope
Marine Le Pen has threatened to vote against French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s October budget - which has sent shock waves across Europe. The proposed decision by France’s National Rally leader could ignite severe disruption in financial markets and invoke Europe-wide political turmoil. The budget - announced on 10 October - prioritises the reset of France’s catastrophic public finances as the French deficit in recent years has skyrocketed to twice of what is permitted by EU rules.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
gbnews.com | Sapphire Hope
The number of single women undergoing fertility treatment has tripled in the last 10 years as the average age has dropped to 36 - the youngest ever recorded. Data from Britain's fertility regulator has revealed that in 2022 nearly 5,000 single UK women underwent IVF or donor insemination (DI) treatment. This is three times more than the 1,534 treatments recorded in 2012 according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) report.
