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| Latest figures show that register offices are proving to be the preferred option for couples wanting a civil ceremony in Staffordshire. There were 3,013 weddings conducted by Staffordshire registrars in the 2008/2009 year with 1,807 ceremonies conducted at register offices and 1,206 held elsewhere. A civil ceremony can take place at the county register office in Stafford, at one of the seven district register offices, or at one of more than 100 venues approved by Staffordshire County Council. These include stately homes and other prestigious buildings, hotels and restaurants. The figures have been released by the county council ahead of National Marriage Week, which runs from February 7 to 14. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – February 3rd 2010 |
| Sobering advice to people drinking at home has been issued by the Government today. The Department of Health said those resolving to cut alcohol intake should consider using a measure, having smaller glasses and even banishing alcohol altogether from the home. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 31st December 2009 |
| The last decade was a “terrible and gruelling” one in which suffering and risk spread, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said. Dr Rowan Williams said terrorism, war, disaster and the financial collapse showed crises do not stop at national frontiers. But he said people could make a difference. In his pre-recorded New Year message he said: “The needs of our neighbours are the needs of the whole human family.” | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 1st January 2010 |
| The number of children reporting sexual abuse by women to ChildLine has more than doubled over the past five years, it has been revealed. New figures show that 2,142 children, a 132 per cent rise, told ChildLine that they had been sexually abused by a woman in this period. That is compared to a 27% increase in reports of abuse by men, the charity said. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 9th November 2009 |
| The prize limits on the most easily available fruit machines were doubled earlier this year. This was despite complaints from the Alliance and other Christian groups that the Government was being cavalier with gambling regulations and increasing the risk to the vulnerable just to help arcades struggling in the recession. | |
| Social Issues | Idea – November/December 2009 |
| A man whose prayers were for forgiveness were overheard by police who bugged his car had been convicted of murder. George Maben’s “confession” was played to an Old Bailey jury, which found him guilty of killing his girl-friend’s wealthy mother. It was after detectives heard his whispered words “God, forgive me for what I have done” that they arrested Maben, aged 45, of Rosehill, Surrey, for strangling Maureen Cosgrove, Aged 65. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – November 6th 2009 |
| The Bishop of the Bahamas has denounced government plans to restore capital punishment. In his charge to the diocese’s 109th synod gathered at Christ Church Cathedral in Nassau, Bishop Laish Boyd told delegates that hanging was “not a deterrent to crime.” “The disregard for human life and a perverted value system which allows a person to maim or to kill another in a dispute, are realities that capital punishment cannot ever address, even though a hanging may satisfy the desire for retribution,” he said on Oct 21. | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England Newspaper- October 30th 2009 |
| Parents can help keep their teenage children out of trouble by giving them a weekly allowance of alcohol, a British study has found. Teenagers who rely on obtaining their own supplies of cheap booze are much more likely to be involved in violence and other bad behaviour, it is claimed. The survey was based on almost 10,000 young people aged fifteen to sixteen in the north-west of England. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – October 9th 2009 |
| The UK population is on course to top 71 million by 2033, figures revealed, with two-thirds of the increase due to immigration. New arrivals, and their children, are fuelling rises not seen since the post-war baby boom, figures from the office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed. Every year 425,000 people will be added to the current 61 million population total, the equivalent of a city the size of Bristol. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- October 22nd 2009 |
| Catholic Labour MP John Battle has backed the new head of the Supreme Court, Lord Phillips, who has said that too many people are being locked up in the UK. As the prison population hit a record high of 84,442, Lord Phillips called for a greater use of community alternatives to jail. “I have always been in favour of alternatives to custody where that cause is open to the judge,” the peer said. Mr Battle called for less imprisonment and more resourcing of education and rehabilitation for prisoners. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe - 4 October 2009 |
| A new poll reveals that 50 per cent of UK adults believe the police are too heavy handed during peaceful protests. Conducted by YouGov for Christian Aid, the research also found that 93 per cent of respondents think that everyone in the UK should have the right to protest peacefully. Also, 33 per cent think that the police filming protesters is an invasion of privacy. | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England - 28 August 2009 |
| A £100million campaign to tackle binge-drinking has been launched. It comes as a YouGov survey found almost one in four young people were ashamed of their appearance while drunk in the past twelve months, a quarter have not known how they got home, and nearly a third blacked out. The initiative urges 18 to 24-year olds to evaluate their drinking to change the social acceptability of drunkenness. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 1 September 2009 |
| Drinkers in England consumed an average eight alcoholic drinks every day on their summer holidays this year, a Government-backed survey has found. The poll of more than 3,500 people, for Know Your Limits Campaign, found that people drank 80 drinks over one holiday, with the average holiday lasting 10 days. This is the equivalent of 80 pints of beer (or 227 units of alcohol), or 80 large glasses of wine (240 units). | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 28 August 2009 |
| A spate of assisted suicides shows that Britain is entering the “age of convenience”, the Archbishop of Westminster has said. Archbishop Vincent Nichols defined the “age of convenience” as the pursuit of what we want despite its cost and impact on others. He argued the loss of faith was giving rise to new moral and social dangers. He said: “The consequences of this attitude lie at the root of the weakening of social structures, including the decline of the family as the core unit and the increasing intolerance of non-materialist, philosophical or ethical views”. | |
| Social Issues | Salvationist- July 2009 |
| Parents are not to blame for the rise in bad behaviour among teenagers, research suggests. There is no evidence that parenting is worse today than it was twenty years ago, according to a study by the Nuffield Foundation. Today’s parents are more likely to know where their teenage children are and what they are doing – in 2006 85% of parents regularly asked their child where they were going. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel- 31 July 2009 |
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