''that's life!'' is a British

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founded in 1995 and published by H Bauer UK, a subsidiary of the German

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on a weekly basis, with new issues released every Thursday. The current editor Sophie Hearsey has been in the position since 2010, joining from sister title ''Take a Break'' replacing Jo Checkley when Checkley left to join rival publication ''Love It!'', owned by Burda Media. The magazine focuses on a mixture of reader submitted "true life" stories, as well as women's health and lifestyle features, puzzles and competitions, following a similar format to sister title ''Take a Break'', and rival publications such as ''Chat'' and ''Pick Me Up''. According to the

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, during the period between July and December 2019, the circulation of ''that's life!'' was 173,472.

Complaints

In 2015 the title was

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after ruling that the magazine had breached the clause on accuracy in the editor's code of practice, this was as a result of a complaint by Leanne Owens, who had submitted a story to the magazine regarding her difficult pregnancy, but upon publication in an October 2014 issue, the story was found to have several falsities, and was not faithful to what was allegedly discussed with the publication's journalist. Despite maintaining that care was taken to provide an accurate story, ''that's life!'' issued a correction and an apology.

References

External links

''That's Life'' website
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