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Real-time pollution monitoring calls after boy nearly dies
Campaigners are calling for real-time pollution monitoring in Lake Windermere after a recent spate of severe infections from contact with the sewage-contaminated water.
A seven-year-old boy nearly died after contracting a dangerous strain of E. coli from contaminated water at the popular tourist destination in Cumbria last summer.
Rex Early was hospitalised for six weeks and needed two operations when he fell violently ill after kayaking on Windermere.
Now his family have joined calls for real-time pollution alerts to better protect people on the lake, which despite the findings, has an ‘excellent’ bathing water classification from the Environment Agency (EA).
Matt Staniek, the founder of campaign group, Save Windermere, explained:
We are told Windermere’s water quality is ‘excellent’, but that label is dangerously misleading.
People are ending up in hospital. Sewage is being dumped into the lake, yet the government continues to allow England’s largest lake to be polluted by the water company without real-time public warnings.
The EA already operates real-time forecasting elsewhere; it must now bring it to Windermere. The government must end sewage pollution in Windermere and put people before profit.
Windermere’s water is not ‘excellent’
Rex became unwell shortly after kayaking near Brockhole Visitor Centre, which is outside of the lake’s designated testing sites. His symptoms began with severe stomach cramps and rectal bleeding.
His mother, Claire Early, told the Guardian:
I noticed the water was murky but I had checked the Environment Agency website and it came up as excellent water quality on Windermere, so I was reassured.
Lab testing revealed E. coli 0157 as the source of the infection — the same strain that killed nine-year-old Heather Preen in 1999, in Devon. Heather’s story recently featured in Channel 4 docu-drama Dirty Business.
Windermere has four designated bathing sites where the EA tests the water between May and September. However, rowers, paddle-boarders and other outdoor enthusiasts make use of wider areas of the lake, which are not tested for contamination.
In another case, in June last year, 42-year-old Graham Jackson was infected with E. coli after swimming in Lake Windermere.
Again, he began to feel unwell that same evening. A trip to the hospital turned into more than a week-long stay and he developed sepsis, a life-threatening condition.
Likewise, Kate Appleby also caught a severe infection after swimming in the lake over the summer. As a local, Kate swam in Windermere regularly for years. However, she was infected with cryptosporidium from the water, which led to severe vomiting and weeks of hospital visits.
United Utilities
In both Graham and Kate’s cases, they were infected during prolonged dry spells over high summer. However, English water companies claim that they only discharge sewage into water bodies during heavy rainfall.
As such, United Utilities — the regional water supplier for the north west of England — claimed that its activities were unlikely to be responsible for the infections.
Notably, United Utilities reported a 131% increase in profits in the six months leading to 30 September 2025. That follows Ofwat approving a five-year plan to raise people’s bills in the North West by 32%, starting last April.
Research from campaign group, Surfers Against Sewage, revealed that water monopolies dumped nearly 8,500 hours of sewage into 43 bathing sites in 2025 — specifically during dry spells. And, as in the Early’s case, these waters are mostly rated ‘excellent’ quality by the Environment Agency.
However, it’s not just sewage dumping causing issues, according to Save Windermere:
A few years ago, researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Biology investigated the impacts of treated sewage, agriculture and urban runoff on river systems. Studying four rivers above and below sewage treatment works, they found that treated sewage discharge was the strongest predictor of high nutrient levels, bottom-dwelling algae and sewage fungus, regardless of surrounding land use.
In Windermere’s case, United Utilities discharged 50 billion litres of treated sewage into the lake and its surrounding catchments between 2017 and 2024. This, according to Save Windermere, is in itself a cause for concern:
A drop of water takes, on average, nine months to travel from the top of the lake to the bottom, meaning much of what enters the lake remains there. Windermere is also naturally oligotrophic, meaning nutrient levels would typically be so low that algal blooms are rare or absent.
The vast quantities of treated effluent entering the lake, carrying the nutrients algae depend on, are pushing Windermere away from its natural state and making it increasingly productive.
These conditions are ideal for the growth of potentially toxic blue-green algae, which threaten both the ecological integrity of the lake and its recreational users.
We saw the consequences in the summer of 2022, when Windermere experienced what was likely the largest blue-green algal bloom on record. The entire North Basin turned vivid green, so striking that it was visible from space.
‘Only rainwater’
As such, in March last year, then-environment secretary, Steve Reed, voiced the government’s long-term ambition of only rainwater entering Windermere.
Likewise, the Only Rainwater coalition — including Save Windermere, Love Windermere, the Lake District National Park authority, United Utilities, the Environment Agency, Ofwat, and Westmorland and Furness Council — is conducting a feasibility study in the area.
The study will gauge the measures needed to eliminate sewage discharges into the lake. The report is due in July, and Save Windermere’s Staniek is pushing for the government to implement the findings immediately. However, this will be a long-term project by necessity.
Until that point, Windermere desperately needs real-time pollution monitoring. This would more accurately reflect United Utilities’ sewage dumping, along with other sources of infection. Further than that, it would help to prevent deaths and further cases of severe infection like Rex, Graham, and Kate’s.
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A small set of women in the House of Lords are trying to end access to abortion telemedicine. More commonly known as the ‘pills by post’ scheme introduced during Covid-19 to ensure continued safe access to pregnancy terminations via remote consultations. It was made permanent in March 2022.
MPs tabled a similar proposal to end telemedicine access in summer 2025—however, it was quickly voted down. This time around, Tory peer Philippa Stroud tabled the motion as an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill. This circumvents the Commons, who have already voted the bill through.
Opponents of bodily autonomy
The version of the bill which passed through the Commons effectively decriminalises abortion altogether. As such, Stroud’s motion is an extreme reversal of the bill’s intent, subverting it into an attack on reproductive rights.
Stroud is backed by Kwisher Falkner, former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Sharon Davies, an ex-swimmer.
It’s notable that all three women are also known for their transphobia. Stroud founded a night shelter/church which attempted to ‘cure’ transsexuality and homosexuality by driving out demons. However, she denies this characterisation—in spite of victims’ testimonies.
Under Falkner’s leadership, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) took a hard pivot from a trans-positive stance to extreme hostility. Likewise, Davies threatened to sue amateur womens’ sporting bodies that allowed trans people to participate. Davies is also a vocal critic of drag, even complaining when the BBC ran a performer’s obituary.
These points are worth bearing in mind, given that transphobes often claim to be ‘defending women’. However, as this attack on abortion rights demonstrates, it’s never just about trans people. Eventually, they also turn out to be opponents of bodily autonomy itself—whether that be sexuality, gender, or abortion rights.
Anti-choice is anti-choice
In an article on the anti-choice motion, the Telegraph stated that critics claim the postal scheme is “open to abuse”. However, the article could not cite even one case of coercive abortion in telemedicine’s four-year history.
Davies describes herself as pro-choice, although that apparently doesn’t extend to choices she doesn’t want people to make. She stated in the Telegraph that:
being pro-choice does not excuse jeopardising safety or allowing a ‘Wild West’ of abortion pills, where pills can too easily fall into the hands of abusers coercing abortions, traffickers covering up abuse or women whose pregnancies are approaching full term.
The practical effect of the scheme is that women at any stage of pregnancy can get hold of abortion pills by misleading abortion providers on the phone about their gestation, either mistakenly or deliberately as in the case of Carla Foster, who was sent abortion pills by BPAS after pretending to be seven weeks pregnant when actually around 33 weeks.
Reintroducing in-person medical consultations for women seeking abortions is not about reducing access to abortion but ensuring safeguarding and best practice.
Note the turn in Davies’ language here. She starts by talking about coercion, and then quickly pivots to ‘concerns’ about people procuring the pills of their own volition. Again, this is not about safeguarding pregnant people; it’s an attack on bodily autonomy.
Lords’ debate
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service itself has stated that people should not have to visit a clinic for abortion pills. Research has demonstrated the safety of the process from a medical standpoint.
Likewise, vulnerable individuals in abusive relationships can also talk to a professional more easily over the phone than by visiting a clinic in person.
Tomorrow, 18 March, the House of Lords will debate the Crime and Policing Bill. In June 2025, the amendment to decriminalise abortion passed in the Commons with a massive 379 votes in favour, versus just 137 against.
As such, the Lords now have the opportunity to strike a historic blow in favour of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. Alternatively, they can follow in Stroud’s footsteps, and impose further unnecessary limits to abortion access.
Featured image via Aiden Frazier/Unsplash
Britain’s MI5 must pay compensation to a woman coercively controlled, abused, and attacked with a machete by a neo-Nazi agent it employed. The agent also had fantasies about eating children. And the victim has warned that MI5 – which was found to have lied repeatedly – was still protecting the abuser.
In a story that gets worse with each sentence the sentence, the BBC reported:
Her legal claim followed a BBC investigation four years ago, which showed that the man, known publicly as Agent X, was a neo-Nazi misogynist who used his security service role as a tool of abuse.
The BBC found he used his status to abuse his partner, known by the alias Beth, before he moved abroad, while under police investigation, to continue intelligence work.
They added:
After subsequently failing in court to discredit Beth, MI5 recently offered to pay compensation to settle her claim. She has now accepted the offer.
Beth’s solicitor Kate Ellis – who also works for the Centre for Women’s Justice – said:
To have this kind of outcome and to win actually against a body like MI5 who are so shrouded in secrecy and in a sense so powerful, is a huge achievement for Beth.
MI5, which was found to have lied repeatedly, had also been forced to own up.
MI5 forced to apologise
The head of MI5 has also been forced to apologise:
We relied on incorrect evidence and our record keeping fell well short of the standard of professionalism that we expect, and to which Beth was entitled. We profoundly regret that our mistakes prolonged the litigation and caused additional suffering for Beth.
MI5 has settled Beth’s claim and we have apologised to Beth directly.
Prompted in part by Beth’s case, MI5 has embarked on a programme of work to reinforce the highest standards of record keeping and information management.
The MI5 chief was accused of trying to get the head of the BBC, Tim Davie, to quash the story in 2021:
In 2021, Sir Ken wrongly claimed the planned story was “inaccurate” when he personally contacted his BBC counterpart Tim Davie in a failed effort to undermine the reporting.
Fantasised about eating children
Details about the man accused are frankly mind boggling:
Evidence showed the MI5 spy, a foreign national, was a right-wing extremist with a violent past. He also engaged in fantasies about eating children.
He had abused a previous partner abroad, before taking on his MI5 role, including threatening to kill her and her child.
Beth met the agent on a dating site. He soon became controlling and physically and sexually abusive:
One video showed Agent X threatening to kill her and attacking her with a machete.
The BBC reported:
MI5 is currently under investigation after the BBC revealed that the security service gave false evidence to three courts while defending its handling of the agent.
In a statement, Beth said the compensation:
can never do anything to repair what I went through at the hands of X.
I’d pay that money so as not to have to experience even a minute of what I had to experience of the worst of his abuse.
She warned that
despite this apology, the MI5 are still protecting this violent misogynistic predator.
The British state has again been caught not only protecting abusers, but lying in order to derail investigations and protect their man. This is nothing new. The Canary has reported extensively on abuse by state agents. Victims like Beth deserve justice – and proverbial heads need to roll over this and many other cases of this nature.
Featured image via the Canary
Shoshana Strook has been found dead at her home in Israel on Sunday 15 March 2026. The Daily Sabah reported that Strook was found:
under circumstances that remain unclear, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Police have launched an investigation into the death, though officials have not publicly disclosed details about the cause.
Israel minister accused of abuse
Strook accused her government minister mother, along with her father and brother, of raping her for years as a child. She had hired lawyers to pursue justice only a few days before her death. In April 2025 Strook, the daughter of Israel’s far-right settlements minister fled to police and asked them to protect her. She accused both her parents and one of her brothers of raping her as a child, over a period of years, and filming the rapes. Her accusations came as other women testified to Israel’s Knesset about the abuse they suffered from political and religious leaders.
Women’s rights organizations in Israel have called for a broader investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death and the allegations she raised before it.
Widespread problem
The issue of child rape among Zionists is not limited to Israelis. The Netanyahu regime is currently ignoring well over 2,000 extradition requests for alleged and convicted paedophiles who fled there from other countries. Others have been convicted in the US, while the Zionist UK Labour party right also has a long record of paedophiles and other sex offenders.
Israeli psychotherapist and trauma expert Dr Anat Gur, head of the Bar-Ilan University trauma therapy program, has said that she believes organised child rape in Israel is widespread:
Organized child rape is one of the most horrific things I’ve encountered. It’s likely much more widespread than we think. It’s happening in places we least expect.
Strook’s death mirrors the long list of suspicious deaths among victims and associates of serial child-rapist and Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein. These deaths include that of Virginia Giuffre, Epstein’s most well-known victim – who was also found dead after saying she would not. Jean-Luc Brunel, the French ‘modelling agent’ accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein, was found dead of supposed suicide in a French prison in 2022.
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I’m not above a TikTok food trend. I’ve tried the surprisingly delicious overnight Weetabix and the viral Italian wedding soup, and have yet to be let down.
I regularly make some version of “brothy rice”, too.
So, despite its somewhat silly name, I’m more than willing to give its newest trend, dubbed “frambled eggs”, a go.
What are “frambled” eggs?
The name is a portmanteau of “fried” and “scrambled”.
Kait, the apparent originator of “frambled eggs”, made them by beginning to scramble some eggs in a hot pan and then accidentally leaving a yolk intact.
Deciding to leave it rather than mix the golden centre in with the rest of the dish, she kept it; creamy scrambled eggs acted as a richer “white” surrounding the runny centre.
The TikTok creator, however, didn’t name “frambled eggs” – that honour goes to commenter @bunnymuffintime, who wrote, “omg… a frambled egg”.
“Didn’t even know this was an option,” another commenter shared underneath the viral clip, which has racked up 1.3 million likes and over 20 million views as of the time of writing.
What does a frambled egg taste like?
It’s more about the texture than the flavour – runny, golden yolk gives way to a creamy scrambled base.
The yolk crisps up a little more than the scrambled part, too, which makes another nice texture contrast.
I had mine on some avocado, but it’s great on its own too; if you want the creaminess of scrambled eggs and the runniness of fried eggs, I can’t recommend it enough.
How do you make a frambled egg?
Add some butter or oil to a pan on a medium to low heat. Full disclosure: I didn’t use enough, which meant the eggs stuck to the pan a bit. Learn from my mistakes!
Then, crack two eggs straight into the hot pan. Don’t scramble them first.
Using a spatula, scramble the whites and one yolk carefully around the yolk of one egg. Drag the cooking egg away from the sides of the yolk you want to keep, using the flat edge of your spatula.
Flip that yolk halfway through, Kait, the inventor of the recipe, suggested.
I did try to skip that because the yolk is so delicate, but it’s a necessary step; unlike a fried egg, “frambled eggs” don’t have long to cook, because the scrambled part would become rubbery if left too long.
She adds salt and pepper at the very end. I put it in at the beginning, but I can’t see it making much difference.
This article contains spoilers for the new season of Virgin River.
If you’ve already binged through the latest season of Virgin River, you’ll have seen the show’s steamiest scene yet between Brady and Brie, played by Ben Hollingsworth and Zibby Allen.
The memorable sequence towards the end of the new episodes sees Brady and Brie having sex on top of his motorbike, putting an end to two seasons’ worth of back-and-forth about whether the characters would ever get together.
And while the scene has gone down well with fans of the escapist Netflix series, Ben has admitted that shooting it was no picnic.
“The human body is not meant to have sex on a motorcycle,” he told Entertainment Weekly, claiming his “back hurt for weeks” once filming was done.
Ben recalled: “I was arching my back over that thing. Talk about an ab workout … It might’ve translated as pleasure or lust on screen, but Ben Hollingsworth was in pain!”
He added: “There’s an abandon with Brady and Brie that’s raw sexy, unlike Mel and Jack or other couples on the show. The spontaneity is also representational of their relationship. It was spontaneous on day one, and it didn’t add up or make sense on paper. It just works.
“That scene encapsulates that, because we had the pool table in season six, and that was a pretty epic moment, and the way it was pitched to me was, ‘This scene would make the pool table blush’.”
Virgin River has already been commissioned for an eighth season, with the latest run of episodes culminating in Brady having an accident on his motorbike.
While Ben told Entertainment Weekly that he already knows his character, he’s keeping schtum for the time being.
Series regular Tim Matheson recently teased to Tech Radar: “We’ve just had little rough discussions about season eight, so we know vaguely what’s going to happen, but mostly only with our characters.
“I mean, they don’t discuss in detail about what’s going to happen to everybody. You just have to wait and see until you get a script.”
All seven seasons of Virgin River are now streaming on Netflix.
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The so-called ‘Anti-Defamation League’ is one of the US’s most prominent Israel lobby groups, alongside the notorious AIPAC. It says its purpose is to combat antisemitism and bigotry, but its focus is really Israel. And it apparently doesn’t think much of Jews who don’t commit to the racist and murderous ideology of Zionism.
The six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, for example, since ADL boss Jonathan Greenblatt just insulted them all as cowards. Giving a speech about (surprise) how indivisible Jews are from Israel is itself antisemitic, since it connects being Jewish with support for Israel’s crimes. But even more so when you contrast unapologetic support for Israeli imperialism and apartheid with the “trembling knees” of Holocaust victims.
Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah spotted the significance – and the antisemitism:
The phrase “we are not the Jews of trembling knees,” used by @jgreenblattADL, is a vile anti-Semitic trope. It echoes the idea that Jewish holocaust victims were somehow to blame for their own deaths because they were “weak.” This Jew-hatred is deeply embedded in Zionism. https://t.co/hkuLSO1xv5
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) March 17, 2026
Zionism is racism. It is also antisemitism.
Featured image via the Canary
Donald Trump has blamed Keir Starmer for the breakdown in UK-US relations in yet another bizarre rant.
The US president said the two countries got on well “until Keir came along” as he once again hit out at the prime minister’s response to the Iran war.
Trump also repeated his observation that Starmer is “not Winston Churchill” as he pointed at a bust of the wartime leader in the Oval Office.
It is the latest in a succession of attacks on Starmer by the president since America and Israel started bombing Iran more than a fortnight ago.
He has made clear his anger that the PM initially refused his request for American jets to use RAF bases to launch their missions.
Trump has also accused Britain of turning down a request to send two aircraft carriers to the Gulf – a claim which has been denied by senior government sources.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, he said: “We have a tremendous, long-term relationship with the UK. It’s the oldest, the longest. Should be the best. Always was the best until Keir came along.”
He also attacked the Labour government’s policies on immigration and shifting from fossil fuels to green energy.
Asked if he had confidence in the prime minister, Trump said: “It’s not for me, it’s really for the people of the UK to have confidence.
“I mean, I’ve been very critical of Keir – and I did it in a friendly way – I said, if you don’t change your energy thing and get away from windmills and go back to oil and gas.
“You have something that no other country has, very few countries have anything like it: the North Sea.
“You have some of the greatest oil and oil deposits in the entire world. The North Sea, they don’t use it.”
He added: “I think he’s a nice man, but I disagree with him on two things.
“Primarily his immigration policy is a disaster, and his energy policy is a disaster – and they’re about the biggest policies you can have.
“You’ve allowed millions and millions and millions of people to come into your country that shouldn’t be there. And, by the way, that’s all over Europe.
Downing Street has been asked to respond to the president’s latest comments.
Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch has slammed Trump for his “childish” attacks on Starmer.
She said she found Trump’s remarks “quite shocking”.
“I’m Keir Starmer’s biggest critic, I think he does a lot of things wrong, I think on this he’s been quite slow.
“I think it’s quite childish as well, a war of words between the White House and Downing Street.”
In 2025, police recorded 2,949 honour-based abuse (HBA) offences in England and Wales. This is abuse directed, for the most part, against women and girls who have allegedly ‘shamed’ their family or community. The cause of this supposed outrage varies, yet it often involves refusing an arranged marriage, choosing one’s own partner, seeking divorce or asserting independence. It is generally family members who carry out these punishments, which range from forcing women to remain in abusive marriages, restricting their freedom of movement, to disturbing accounts of assault – even murder, referred to as ‘honour killings’.
The scandal isn’t simply that these barbaric practices are occurring in the UK. Increasingly, authorities are incapable or unwilling to prosecute them – effectively, the state is turning a blind eye to these actions. Recently released figures by the government reveal that, last year, nearly 3,000 cases of HBA were recorded in Britain, yet a paltry 98 people were prosecuted. In other words, less than three per cent of cases went to court. In 2023, over 3,000 incidents yielded just 68 charges. According to Karma Nirvana, an organisation that monitors these crimes, HBA had the lowest conviction rate of all crimes in England and Wales last year.
It should be noted that police indifference isn’t the sole cause of these pitifully low prosecution rates. A significant factor is victims withdrawing statements, or refusing to cooperate with police. Indeed, Crown Prosecution Service data has flagged this as the top reason why HBA cases collapse, accounting for 24 per cent of failed prosecutions. Of course, it would be naive to assume that the victims have changed their mind voluntarily. Often, they are subjected to extreme pressure – including threats – by members of their family or community.
With around three-quarters of HBA victims being Muslim women, it is hard not to conclude that the proliferation of Sharia courts has played a role in this denial of justice. Wielding Islamic authority, these courts steer disputes inward, away from British courts and secular, democratic laws. Instead, Sharia courts urge reconciliation with abusive partners, advise ‘patience’ in violent marriages, and frame police involvement as shameful or a ‘last resort’. The application of Sharia principles is primarily focussed on family matters like marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody.
Sharia law is based on the doctrinal foundations of traditional Islamic jurisprudence – the Koran, the Sunnah (the reported practices and teachings of Muhammed), and other interpretations of Islamic scripture and culture. It is deeply misogynistic. Under Sharia law, a woman’s evidence is generally valued at half a man’s. Men can unilaterally pronounce ‘Talaq’ (divorce), while women often face significant barriers, such as returning the dowry or proving fault. Inheritance rules typically allocate women half the share of male heirs in equivalent positions.
Women are viewed as having little autonomy or value. As such, they are often forced to stay in abusive marriages and relationships. One woman – quoted by anti-Sharia campaigner Baroness Caroline Cox, in evidence submitted to the House of Lords in 2016 – recounts being pressured to return to her husband, despite obtaining a lawful divorce in an English court. She described Sharia judges dismissing her concerns entirely: ‘[They] did not listen to a word I had to say… I felt like a second-class citizen.’
In 2019, there were up to 85 Sharia courts known to be operating in Britain, evading state oversight. Given their propensity to coerce victims, and to forcibly commit families and whole communities to an oath of silence, it is no wonder that only three per cent of HBA allegations lead to prosecution.
The police’s selective blindness to these abuses is a form of negligence. It betrays a shameful double standard in policing, doubtless motivated by a misguided attempt to prevent ‘community tensions’. This not only erodes the legitimacy of law enforcement. It also leaves victims – often women – isolated from the protection they are entitled to under the laws of the land.
The timid approach taken by the authorities to Sharia courts and HBA mirrors the grooming-gangs scandal, in which police failed to investigate thousands of sexual offences spanning decades. In Rotherham alone, 1,400 children – mostly white British girls as young as 11 – were groomed, raped and sex trafficked between 1997 and 2013. Yet these crimes were, for the most part, ignored by South Yorkshire Police, who were more interested in protecting themselves from accusations of racism than investigating rapists who were disproportionately Pakistani Muslims. Alarmingly, it appears that the authorities have learnt nothing from this catastrophic failure.
The proliferation of Sharia courts is an affront to equality before the law. It is the embodiment of two-tier justice. As ever, it is women who suffer the most from the indifference of our politically correct rulers.
Stephen Sidney is a spiked intern.
We’re getting closer to British Summer Time (BST), which kicks in on 29 March.
It always happens on the last Sunday of March. And while some argue daylight saving time helps to reduce car accidents, it’s also been linked to worse sleep and higher incidences of heart attack and stroke.
To help you navigate it as successfully as possible (with minimal disruption to sleep), Dr Tim Mercer, an NHS GP partner and GP trainer with Opera Beds, has shared some tips for managing the shift.
1) Eat dinner earlier on Sunday, 29 March
Eating too close to your bedtime can “significantly impact the quality of sleep, particularly the deeper and more restorative phases such as deep and REM sleep,” psychologist Dr Leah Kaylor told HuffPost UK previously.
And Dr Mercer said that when the clocks change, our eating window should, too.
“On Sunday, 29th March, eat dinner an hour earlier than usual,” he suggested.
“Where we’re losing an hour, eating too close to your bedtime can disturb your sleep and cause indigestion.”
2) Try “sleep staggering”
Sure, you could stick to the same bedtime in the lead-up to the clock change and then shift to the hour change in one go. But as someone who’s done that in the past and regretted it, I’m willing to give Dr Mercer’s advice a try this year.
“As the clocks go forward and we move into British Summer Time, we lose an hour of sleep, which can upset our internal body clock. If you have a good sleep routine, you may consider moving it forward by 10-15 minutes in the days leading up to the change,” he suggested.
“This slow adjustment will help ease your body into the new schedule, reducing the shock to your system.”
3) Get that morning sunshine in
Sunlight can help to regulate our circadian rhythm, or sleep-wake cycle, which can suffer during clock changes.
And morning sunlight in particular seems to be uniquely good at the job.
“Exposure to natural sunlight in the morning can help reset your internal clock. Light is one of the most powerful signals for regulating the circadian rhythm, so spending time outside in the early daylight hours can help your body adjust more quickly,” Dr Marcer explained.
4) Don’t forget to stay active
Exercise is great for sleeping well – half an hour a day will likely land you results that same night.
“Longer daylight hours provide more opportunities for outdoor activity, which can benefit your sleep,” said Dr Mercer.
“Engage in regular exercise, such as walks or outdoor sports, but avoid vigorous activity too close to bedtime, as this can be stimulating.”
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