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• Warmers and Shelley to get through winter | Brief letters

  17-12-2025 18:59
  Raynaud’s syndrome | What follows winter | Beaver bones | Honda Jazz | Maga | LagerYour article on how to cope with winter (17 December) left one point out. Raynaud’s syndrome causes sufferers to lose blood circulation in their hands in cold weather. The best help I have found for it is buying a couple of HotRox – little metal eggs that can be charged up to release heat and restore blood supply. Bring on the snowballs!
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• Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists

  17-12-2025 11:14
  Exclusive: DNA advances show Roman-era skeleton, once hailed as first black Briton, came from southern EnglandBeachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.The mystery of the skeleton’s shifting identity was finally resolved after advances in DNA sequencing produced a high-quality genetic readout from the remains. Continue rea
  
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