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Motorists are being urged to be prepared before they travel

Autumn is officially here – make sure your vehicle is ready for the months ahead

Autumn has arrived. With changing seasons come differing weather conditions and temperatures – and motorists are being urged to be prepared before they travel.

National Highways is encouraging drivers to carry out checks to ensure their vehicle is ready for the damp, cold and soggy conditions which will arrive this Autumn – making those record-breaking hot temperatures from the...

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Experts confirm that driving under weather warnings does not invalidate your car insurance

As the winter season approaches, many Irish drivers are concerned that snow-ice weather warnings could invalidate their car insurance. These weather warnings usually fit into three categories: yellow, orange, and red warnings.

Meteorologist Siobhán Ryan explains that “a status yellow weather alert is given to warn those at risk from certain weather because of their location and/or...

Glastonbury festival

Eight things we won’t miss about festivals this year

Until this weekend’s cancelled Glastonbury Festival loomed closer in the diary, we didn’t realise it was possible to get FOMO over an event that isn’t even happening.

It turns out, you totally can, especially if you’re tuning into the BBC’s ‘virtual festival’ which is torturously airing classic sets on TV and iPlayer throughout the weekend, reminding us of how epic Glastonbury really...

Five ways to combat dry skin in winter

Skincare guru Dr Catharine Denning gives us the low-down on why our skin suffers so much in the colder months.

Alongside the joys of the festive season and the excuse to drink mulled wine at any occasion, winter brings with it a multitude of beauty problems.

As well as contending with frizzy hair and brittle nails, our skin suddenly feels bone dry and starts to flake in...

How to stay safe in heavy rain and flooding

Cancel your garden parties and load up on sandbags.

It’s been a funny old summer, to say the least.

Record-setting heat has cooked the European continent, interspersed with cracks of forked lightning flashing across the sky. Now a set of storm warnings bring the latest twist in the tale, predicting torrential rain and possible flooding in some parks of the UK.

Here’...