For many Brits, working from home has become the ‘new normal’ during lockdown and with companies looking to embrace this more into the future, we could be doing so for a lot longer.
Working from home comes with its fair share of perks to take advantage of, but back pain is not one of them.
Luckily, online gifting retailer Prezzybox is selling a Heated Back & Seat Massager that looks set to sort out all the aches and pains you’ve accumulated over the last few months.
According to the product description, this Heated Back & Seat Massager will “quickly soothe away any aches and pains” with five massage motors and pulsing vibrations which are designed to “relieve weary muscles”. The motors are “expertly positioned at key points on the chair” and the soothing heat “targets the lumbar area”.
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You can customise your massage to suit by choosing to turn various parts of the massager on or off, meaning you can tailor your relaxation to exactly what you need. It features a unique strapping system that makes it convenient, portable and perfect for use in the home/office or in the car.
It also boasts a handy timer function of 15, 30 and 60 minutes too.
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It’s a 4/5 customer rated product and there’s plenty of positive five star reviews from happy customers over the years, so if you’ve been wondering whether it’s worth the buy or not, it may be a good idea to have a read through a few of those to help make your mind up.
One review by a satisfied customer reads: “Bought for my partner who loves a good massage. It was easy to install and use, the vibrations are decent and make long drives more comfortable. I consider this to have been a good purchase and value for money.”
“Bought this as a present, as I have one myself which helps my bad back. Very relaxing.” said another.
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If you’re looking for a some relief from the working from home life, or want to add a touch of comfort to long car journeys, then the Heated Back & Seat Massager is available to get your hands on for just £34.95 from the Prezzybox website here.
Next Day Delivery is available when orders are placed before 12:30pm daily and Standard Delivery will see your gift arrive at your front between in 1-2 working days, costing £3.99.
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Government announces all national museums in UK will remain FREE for everyone to visit
Emily Sergeant
Dozens of national museums across the UK are set to remain free for everyone to visit, it has been confirmed.
Funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the 14 national museums of the UK are all located in England – including the Imperial War Museum North, and the Science and Industry Museum in our region – and free entry to was first introduced all the way back in 2001, with millions of visitors having benefitted since.
National museums are said to add more than £1 billion a year to the economy, and bring in visitors from all over the world.
In fact, seven of the UK’s 10 most visited museums are national museums, and 7.1 million people visited the Natural History Museum and 6.4 million visited the British Museum in 2025 alone.
The Government has announced that all national museums in the UK will remain free for everyone to visit / Credit: Science Museum Group | Wikimedia Commons
Earlier this year though, the Government committed to working with local leaders and the museum and tourism sectors to explore whether charging overseas visitors could help museums’ finances.
But following this, it’s now believed that charging could deter visitors, and that the impacts and benefits would ‘not be felt equally’ across the sector.
Instead, the free entry will be funded by the £1.5 billion Arts Everywhere Fund – which is providing £760 million for museums – while £600 million of infrastructure funding is supporting national museums and DCMS-sponsored cultural organisations.
The latter funding will be used to address critical maintenance and works to estates, and enable institutions to deliver on their commitments to share collections with visitors from around the world.
A further £160 million is coming from The Museum Estates and Development Fund to help museums tackle maintenance backlogs.
On top of that, the Government will work with Arts Council to develop a long-term strategic plan for the future of museums.
Featured Image – Science Museum Group
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Man City release statement after being found guilty of all charges related to Premier League’s financial rules
Emily Sergeant
Manchester City has finally broken its silence after being found guilty all of its charges related to the Premier League’s financial rules.
Yesterday, the Premier League released a formal statement confirming that an independent Commission had found Manchester City guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period.
On top of that, the club was also found guilty of the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
According to the Premier League, the independent Commission found that Manchester City had arranged so-called ‘sham’ commercial deals with a number of its sponsors during the nine-season period – which were part of a disguised funding scheme, with those sponsors only required to pay a portion of the relevant sponsorship fees.
The remainder was then funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club.
The Commission also concluded, as quoted by the Premier League, that the club had ‘made concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the Premier League investigation’.
Following this report being published yesterday, Manchester City has now finally released a statement of its own, breaking its silence on the topic for the first time since the news broke last Friday.
The statement reads in full: “Manchester City FC is both disappointed and surprised by the opinion of the Premier League Commission, that has been published today.
“The Club is innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League and a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence exists in support of all of its positions, relating to this case. The Club will therefore be relentless, and where necessary proactive, in any and all appropriate regulatory and legal forums.
“The Premier League process remains ongoing, with significant elements uncompleted. Manchester City FC will now pursue the appeal avenues open to it, on the basis that the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe.
“The Club has diligently respected due process for eight years on the basis that the Premier League Board and Executive would behave as an independent, impartial and fair-minded regulator, free from partisan influence.
“The Club is obviously restricted in what it can say further until all future proceedings are complete.”
Emily Sergeant -
1st July 2020 
