A recent shock headline said that sleeping in the same bed as your partner ‘can increase the risk of depression, heart disease and stroke’. Snoring, fighting for the duvet and being pushed out of bed by a ‘starfisher’ are all common complaints by anyone who’s ever shared a bed with a partner. A 2015 National Sleep Foundation survey found that...

According to Britain’s leading expert in Sleep Science women need to have more sleep than men. It may only be twenty minutes per night and that may not seem much, but it adds up to a massive amount in a lifetime and is vital. It works out at 7,300 minutes a year, which is just over 120 hours, or 15 full nights of 8 hours sleep, and if y...