Foot specialist Margaret Dabbs, Graham Norton’s favourite and founder of the eponymous and highly exclusive foot-care clinics, has collaborated with Marks Spencer to create a luxurious foot care range.
It includes 14 professional products and tools to help summer feet get pedi-ready in no time, using ingredients such as ginger extract, green tea, bergamot and manuka honey.
Bare Feet by Margaret Dabbs is available exclusively in selected Marks Spencer stores nationwide and online.
Prices start at £3.50 for gel feet pads to £39.50 for an electronic foot file.
Bare Feet cosmetics, pictured, designed by Margaret Dabbs, are a favourite of Graham Norton
The average Briton loses 14 hours of sleep a week during the summer holidays.
In June, July and August, Brits get an average of 20 per cent less sleep, according to research by window blinds website web-blinds.com.
More than nine in ten said their sleep had been disrupted in some form over the summer, with seven in ten blaming difficulty sleeping in the heat.
Many also blamed having more free time in the summer months, with 64 per cent saying they lost sleep due to taking part in more social activities, while more than half blamed an increase in alcohol intake for causing sleeping problems.
Get reading for a long life
Reading novels will make you live longer, according to research.
Men and women who read books are 20 per cent less likely to die prematurely, and even those who get through just a chapter a day have a survival advantage over non-readers.
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The reading study, by Yale University school of public health, was based on more than 3,500 people monitored for 12 years.
‘It’s thought that reading books may help preserve mental functioning,’ the report said.
If you can’t recognise George Clooney’s voice you could have phonagnosia – an inability to identify familiar speakers from their voice.
Researchers from the University of Southern California tested the voice recognition skills of more than 700 people using 50 celebrities with familiar voices, including Clooney and Christian Bale.
Results suggested that three per cent of us may be sufferers.
Phonagnosia is the voice equivalent of prosopagnosia, a phenomenon in which people cannot recognise familiar faces.
Pixie’s man puts his back into Pilates… after his mother’s op disaster
Pop princess Pixie Lott’s male model boyfriend may look the picture of health, but at just 28 years old he is already suffering from back pain.
Oliver Cheshire, right with girlfriend Pixie Lott, is suffering from back pain aged 28
‘I put it down to playing rugby when I was younger,’ says the former face – and body – of Calvin Klein, Oliver Cheshire, left, who has been dating the Breakfast At Tiffany’s star, far left, since 2010.
‘I go to the gym four times a week as part of my job, but I have to do low-impact exercise.
‘I’m useless at running because my legs hurt very quickly, so stick to cycling and skipping.
‘Sadly, it runs in the family. Both my parents suffer from bad backs, but they dealt with it in different ways – my mum had surgery which went wrong and, as a result, she’s never been able to work again and frequently relies on morphine.
‘Whereas my dad went down a different route and treated it with yoga and Pilates, which really helped. It made a huge difference and so I’d always opt for that before surgery.’
He also revealed a traumatic childhood health battle. ‘I had double-pneumonia when I was ten and nearly died, so I can keep a bad back in perspective.’