The NHS provides a calculator on its website to help people determine one thing

Many Brits are logging into Spotify to see what their latest Wrapped stats reveal about them. Every year, the platform gathers data on preferred artists, albums, and listening patterns, then creates a fun, personalised report.

Surprisingly, the NHS has now entered the conversation with its own Wrapped message. On X, previously known as Twitter, it urged Brits to get an essential health check, especially if their ‘listening age’ is 68 or above.

“If your listening age is 68, and your #SpotifyWrapped is wall-to-wall Beatles, it might be time to check your heart age,” the NHS said last night. “A few minutes now can help keep your health in the right rhythm all year.”

While chronological age reflects the years since birth, heart age indicates the health status of your heart. The NHS provides a calculator on its website for Brits to determine their heart age by answering questions about their personal health.

Importantly, this calculator is only intended for people aged 30 to 95 who do not suffer from conditions impacting the heart or blood vessels, like cardiovascular disease. Users must be residents of the UK and agree to share information about their weight, height, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels.

Nevertheless, the NHS advises: “You can still use this calculator if you do not have your blood pressure or cholesterol details, but the results may be less accurate.”

Understanding your heart age is important because it can indicate your risk of experiencing a heart attack, stroke, or developing heart disease. The British Heart Foundation states that coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death for both men and women globally.

Fortunately, there are several ways you can help lower your risk of this. Eating a healthy, balanced diet, increasing physical activity, avoiding cigarettes, and reducing alcohol consumption are among them.

Further NHS guidance adds: “Coronary heart disease is the term that describes what happens when your heart’s blood supply is blocked or interrupted by a build-up of fatty substances in the coronary arteries.

“Over time, the walls of your arteries can become furred up with fatty deposits. This process is known as atherosclerosis and the fatty deposits are called atheroma.

“Atherosclerosis can be caused by lifestyle factors, such as smoking and regularly drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. You’re also more at risk of getting atherosclerosis if you have conditions like high cholesterol, high blood pressure (hypertension) or diabetes.”

For more information, visit the NHS website.

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British arable farmers are facing a revenue loss of more than £800m after one of the worst-ever harvests on record, analysis shows. 

Crop production this year was hit by the hottest spring and summer on record as well as drought conditions, leaving farmers with 20% less revenue, according to an estimate by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) thinktank.

The estimated loss of £828m is based on researchers looking at “per-hectare yield” figures for wheat, spring and winter barley, oats and oilseed rape and crop area estimates for the UK.

They compared current farm gate prices to government figures for the 10-year average for production volumes for the five staple crops from 2015-2024, finding a sharp drop in revenue.

Farmers saw a 38.4% decline in revenue from oilseed rape, a 21.5% decline in milling oat revenues, 19.6% decline in milling wheat revenues and 16.1% in feed wheat, according to the ECIU.

The provisional environment department (Defra) figures in October found 2025 to be the second-worst year on record for England, with the harvest across the UK expected to be similarly poor.

This year’s anticipated poor harvest comes following another one of the worst harvests on record in 2024, which came after the preceding autumn and winter saw extreme rainfall.

Tom Lancaster, ECIU land, food and farming analyst, said: “This has been another torrid year for many farmers in the UK, with the pendulum swinging from too wet to too hot and dry.

“With confidence in the sector at rock bottom, there is an urgent need to ensure farmers are better supported to adapt to these climate shocks and build their resilience as the bedrock of our food security.”

He said delays to the relaunch of green farming payment schemes, like the sustainable farming incentive, “are the last thing the industry needs”.

David Lord, an arable farmer from Essex and member of the Nature Friendly Farming Network steering group, said that with near-constant extreme rainfall, heat and drought in recent years, green farming schemes “are a vital lifeline for me”.

“But with the schemes closed and no clarity on their future, too many farmers are locked out, unable to access the support they need to adapt whilst facing a wider agriculture policy that does too little to build our resilience and too often works against it,” he added.

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A Defra spokesperson acknowledged that there are “challenges” in the sector and weather extremes that have affected harvests.

They added: “We are backing our farmers in the face of a changing climate with the largest nature-friendly farming budget in history to grow their businesses and get more British food on our plates,” they said.