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‘HELP FAMILIES’

A children’s charity that is supporting families in crisis has described the levels of severe hardship it is seeing as being “among the worst” it can remember. Action for Children insisted the Government can do “so much more ” for people who are struggling the most.

COSTS HIT HEALTH

More than half of people say they have worse health due to high living costs, with medics reporting some patients cannot afford to look after themselves. A YouGov poll of 2,001 people by the Royal College of Physicians found 55% felt their health had got worse owing to high heating costs and soaring food bills.

MALE CANCER LINK

Infertile men may be twice as likely to develop breast cancer, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said, adding that further work is needed to understand the underlying causes of male breast cancer.

KOOL UP EVEREST

Mountaineer Kenton Cool, 48, of

Gloucestershire, has completed his record-breaking 16th “summit” of Mount Everest, the highest number of climbs by any non-Sherpa.

HARRY ON CBEEBIES

Singer Harry Styles, 28, will read Jess Hitchman’s In Every House, On Every Street, for the CBeebies Bedtime Story. It will be screened next Monday.