Over-50 jobless misery

REDUNDANCIES among over 50-year-olds increased by 240% last year.

The total rose from 35,000 at the start of 2020 to 121,000 by the end of the year, according to an analysis by Rest Less, which offers advice to over-50s.

Redundancy rates for the over-50s climbed from 4.2 per 1,000 employees in January to March 2020 to 14.4 in September to November, said the report.

Stuart Lewis, founder of Rest Less, said: “Even though redundancy rates among the over-50s have never been this high, our concern is that there is worse still to come with more than 640,000 over55s still on furlough.”

CHILDREN brought up on a bad diet are more likely to be sickly for the rest of their lives – even if they switch to healthy foods as adults, research reveals.

Eating too much fat and sugar as a kid could permanently reduce the number of disease-fighting bacteria in the gut.

Professor Theodore Garland at University of California, said: “Kids having a Western diet, high in fat and sugar – their gut is still being affected up to six years after puberty.”