Nutritional therapist Amy Swan says up to 50% of infertility cases involve a male factor and that lifestyle and nutrition — including heat exposure, diet and stress — can influence sperm quality.
Lancaster's village hall received £2,500 from the Lancashire Environmental Fund to tackle a damp problem and a 3R Grant of £833 from the 3R Foundation and Carnforth Charity Shop to improve fire safety.
Meet and Marrow, run by childhood friends Nicola Patterson and Axel Tucker, will open on Duke Street in Darlington on Monday 16 February after relocating from an earlier planned site. The founders say the café has been refurbished and will focus on unprocessed, mostly in‑house food.
More than 2,500 people are expected at a Grand Iftar on 28 February at Stadium MK, organised by volunteer group Mubarak Moments. Tickets start at £6 and the event will include iftar packs, a hot meal after maghrib, guest speakers and some celebrity appearances.
Uber and Baidu said they will launch fully autonomous ride-hailing services in Dubai in the coming month, initially operating in parts of the Jumeirah area; passengers can request Apollo Go vehicles via the Uber app when booking Uber Comfort or UberX or by choosing an 'Autonomous' option.
The King's Award for Voluntary Service will be handed over at an afternoon tea and ceremony on 12 February at Seaford Blatchington Golf Club, recognising Friends of Bishopstone Station's volunteer work to improve and maintain the station environment.
A prospective Leuven cohort recorded overnight multichannel EEG in preterm infants at term-equivalent age and reassessed the children at 2 years corrected age with standardized tests of early executive function; the team used automated sleep classification and general linear models to examine associations between specific neonatal sleep features and later executive functioning.
Floods Minister Emma Hardy visited Langport in Somerset on 10 February to see local flood impacts; the Environment Agency has deployed high-volume pumps and reports about 16,200 properties protected while over 300 properties have been flooded.
NHS Sussex reports that Mental Health Support Teams now operate in 309 Sussex schools and that an Autism in Schools project supports more than 50 settings, with local examples showing work on self-advocacy and inclusion.
Botanical Place in West Byfleet has begun receiving its first residents and opened the Yarrow restaurant to the public. The development offers 197 apartments and is reported to aim for whole-of-life net zero carbon.
