Yours Magazine

Yours is the UK’s best-selling fortnightly lifestyle magazine for women over 50. We offer targeted, trusted and useful advice, whether it’s to help readers look their best, to stay healthy and active, enjoy their free time or to manage their money better. We celebrate 50-plus women overcoming difficulties or achieving amazing things. We like to look back with our readers and listen to their views too.

Welcome...

The View from yours • Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

Trees that touch hearts • The Woodland Trust’s Tree of the Year competition shows just how much these ancient barks and branches mean to us

Meeting place • Our pick of your best letters, pictures & wise words…

Yours 50 over fifty • 50 over 50 is a fun and friendly club anyone can join – simply pledge to try 50 new things. Research shows that new activities not only improve concentration and fitness levels but are great confidence and mood-boosters too. Here’s a few ideas to get you started…

‘The kindness that made me cry’ • Amanda Redman tells Yours how filming the new series of The Good Karma Hospital helped restore her faith in human nature

My lessons from life • With a new thriller just out, BBC security correspondent and novelist Frank Gardner, 60, shares what matters to him

French & Saunders reunite on the big screen • Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, famous for spoof sketches of Hollywood movies, are starring in one for real!

For the love of animals • From pampered pets to birds, bugs and wild beasties we celebrate all creatures great and small…

Making cakes for heroes • When her son Jacob finished cancer treatment, mum Joanne Howard wanted to give back by making amazing cakes for other children going through tough times

SNOW FOR GOLD • As we skate into the Winter Olympics in Beijing from February 4-20, we take a look at the ‘coolest’ facts about the contest

‘My house is haunted!’ • Martin Roberts talks spooks, marking a milestone and why we should never put off getting home repairs sorted

DON’T PUT OFF TACKLING ISSUES IN YOUR HOME

All aboard for litter picking • Improving the environment is all in a day’s work for assistant headteacher Victoria Cairns – with a little help from her friends Laura and Lucas

HOW TO JOIN THE LITTER BUSTERS

We hear you • You responded in your thousands to our Voice for Choice survey. Here’s what you said…

What you told us…

Life in COLOUR • This year’s fashion forecast is bright, cheery and guaranteed to lift your mood

Silver LININGS • Look your best with our guide to embracing your natural hair colour

Go GREY YOUR WAY • Embracing your grey can feel like a big step. Here are Silver & Sassy’s top five tips for making the transition...

On the move • Kick-start your healthy New Year plan with the help of some stylish new fitness wear

Some like it HOT • HEALTH ADVICE YOU CAN TRUST

HEALTH SYMPTOMS YOU SHOULDN’T IGNORE • We are all aware of the pressures faced by the NHS and how hard it can seem to get a face to face appointment. Dr Zoë Watson offers her advice on calling or visiting your GP

‘We walked our way to health!’ • Six Yours readers share the amazing impact of walking on their physical and mental wellbeing

Break the cycle of doom • Don’t let your imagination run riot when life feels hard – here’s how to stay calm in the present moment

Sharing the CARING • Our Reader Care Editor Rosie Sandall is here with compassion, support and advice for carers

Comfort food made healthy! • Eating well has never tasted so good with these new recipes from the latest Pinch of Nom book by Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone

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