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

Reasons to be cheerful • This Happiness Month we celebrate some good news stories from the year so far

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

‘Vera is like an old friend’ • Much-loved actress Brenda Blethyn has been playing no-nonsense detective Vera Stanhope for more than ten years – and she’s more fond of the role than ever

Brenda shares a secret

My lessons from life • TV presenter and adventurer Ben Fogle (47), set for a UK tour, tells us what makes him tick

Suranne’s journey into the unknown! • Award-winning actress Suranne Jones takes on her most challenging role to date in a new drama starting this Bank Holiday weekend

Some of Suranne’s standout roles

Time to explore • This rare Przewalski foal, one of the world’s last ‘truly wild’ horse species, was born last month at Whipsnade Zoo. Horses bred at the zoo have been taken to their native Mongolia as part of a conservation project to help them thrive in their homeland.

NATURE NEWS

‘Inspired by our garden wildlife’ • We meet the dad and daughter who filmed a nature documentary in their back garden over lockdown – and became award-winning filmmakers

Try it yourself…

SCHOOLS ACROSS THE WORLD • As British schools get ready for a new term we take a look at some fascinating facts about schools from around the globe

‘I opened my own bookshop’ • How avid reader Carole-Ann Warburton finally made her lifelong dream come true

Choc-ice and a chat? • How losing most of her family in a tragic accident has led Annie Nicholson to tour the UK in an ice-cream van, dishing out cones and conversations to help people talk about grief

The doctor will phone you now… • With nearly half of all GP appointments now done by phone or video call, we investigate the issue and why face-to-face chats are so important

What our readers had to say • We asked on Facebook for your views on remote consultations…

Zoë rules Britannia! • Actress Zoë Wanamaker on playing a killer queen in Sky Atlantic’s mystically historical drama Britannia, history repeating itself, loving a gossip and the joys of mud, glorious mud

Bras for every shape • We all come in different shapes and sizes and wearing the right bra will not only make you feel good but will help your clothes fit better, too

Hair SOS • Whatever your hair type, these best buys promise to deliver a good hair day every day

Animal instincts • Think an animal print isn’t for you? These fashion finds are proof anyone can wear this wild trend

Jump to it! • HEALTH ADVICE YOU CAN TRUST

Can you true health test kits? • They’ve never been more popular, but are home health testing kits – for everything from cholesterol to iron levels – a valued part of modern healthcare or a waste of your money…?

Possible pitfalls

Experts recommend

Mind what you eat • Meet two inspiring ladies who have reached their weight-loss goals by following the new NHS approved healthy eating plan that aims to completely change your relationship with food

Quick and easy recipes to help your weight loss!

The wonders of water • Whether drinking it or just being around it, water is...