内容摘要：A trial project to enable more households to recycle plastic bags and wrapping in their weekly collections is being expanded.

A trial project to enable more households to recycle plastic bags and wrapping in their weekly collections is being expanded.

However, she says she is still left with "subconscious triggers".The medical business consultant now has to sleep wearing a mask, known as a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine.

It is designed to treat sleep apnoea, a condition that causes a person to stop and start breathing in their sleep, which she developed after having Covid.Mrs Sharma said: "Some days I just can't put the mask on because it takes me right back to then [being in hospital]."Sometimes I wake up in the middle of a night terror and I just have to rip it off.

"Even when I was first fit with the mask, I had to spray perfume in it to be able to put it on in the first place because it smelled like intensive care."However, she said her PTSD was "manageable" at the moment, more so than her physical health.

Mrs Sharma relied on portable oxygen for about 18 months after being discharged from hospital in 2020.

The damage Covid caused to her lungs has left her immunosuppressed and susceptible to infections, particularly respiratory infections."Increasing numbers of owners are either closing their salons or changing their employment practices and are renting chairs to contractors just to survive."

Mr Dicker said cutting VAT to 10% would "save salons across the country".A spokesperson for the Treasury said they were removing the £110,000 business rates relief cap for more than 280,000 retail, hospitality and leisure business properties.

The Sunday Times rich list has revealed Wales' wealthiest people.This year's edition of the annual shortlist sees Cardiff-born billionaire Sir Michael Moritz and wife Harriet Heyman return to the top spot with a wealth of £4.435bn - a fall of £168m compared with 2024.