Britons drank more alcohol than usual during the lockdown but smoked less, study reveals

Britons drank alcohol more than usual during lockdown but there was a rise in the number of people who gave up cigarettes, research has revealed.  One in six people admitted binge drinking at least once a week in April, during the darkest days of the crisis, up from one in 10 before the pandemic reached … Read more

Beating Covid will be our prize catch! Says smoked salmon producer

Lance Forman’s family firm has survived flood, fire, ‘Red Ken’ Livingstone, the Left-wing firebrand former mayor of London, and two World Wars. Having weathered all that, he certainly has no intention of letting his world-famous smoked salmon business be laid low by a virus. The 57-year-old is a former president of the Cambridge Union and … Read more