Article: Let's go to bed...for a good night's sleep; WeekEnd:AtHome.(Features)

Byline: WITH ANN EVANS

SLEEPING BEAUTY spent 100 years between the sheets and John Lennon and Yoko Ono lasted a week there with the world's media watching them.

As for the rest of us, by the time we are old and grey we will have spent on average about 27 years there. Where? Tucked up under the duvet - in bed.

The average person spends around a third of their lives in bed asleep. You are likely to have already slept about 2,555 hours in the past year alone and we will eventually have dreamt away six years of our lives, even though we may never ...

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