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Weight loss drug users save over £400 on food as take-up triples

10 June 2026 at 12:37

Research suggests households that include a GLP-1 user collectively spent £780m less on grocery bills

Weight-loss drugs are saving users’ households more than £400 a year on grocery bills, according to a survey, which found use of GLP-1s has nearly tripled in the past two years to 1.9 million adults.

More than 6.3% of households in Great Britain now include at least one GLP-1 user, according to the research by Worldpanel by Numerator. This marks a sharp rise from 4.1% of households in 2025 and 2.3% in 2024.

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© Photograph: Ashok Saxena/Alamy

© Photograph: Ashok Saxena/Alamy

© Photograph: Ashok Saxena/Alamy

‘Ugly in a beautiful way’: Denmark’s mullet championship celebrates divisive hairstyle

Danish follicle rebels go head to head in competition for best short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back cut

Business in the front, party in the back. A packed Danish crowd has celebrated the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle, defined by very short hair at the front and longer hair at the back.

Denmark’s raucous 2026 Mullet Championship, presented on an outdoor stage in central Copenhagen, attracted 12 well-coiffed competitors and more than 1,000 spectators.

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© Photograph: James Brooks/AP

© Photograph: James Brooks/AP

© Photograph: James Brooks/AP

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