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| Research suggests that most people in Britain love their neighbourhood despite the apparent surge in yob culture. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 12th July 2006 |
| Couples who are affected by serious genetic diseases and require IVF to have children will be able to select embryos free of certain illnesses after techniques developed at Guys and St Thomas’ hospital in London. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity - August 2006 |
| The mid-morning cuppa does a lot more for hard pressed office workers than provide an excuse for a gossip. In fact, it makes you five times more likely to complete your pre-lunch tasks, and dramatically improves staff confidence in completing their 'to do' list by the end of the day. Energy levels also increase and the tea break even offers bosses the chance to socialise with colleagues, and for the more ambitious workers to network. | |
| Social Issues | Typhoo – July 2006 |
| More than 7.7 million trusting Brits (27 per cent of all working adults) are allowing relative strangers such as window cleaners, builders, and utility trades-people (electricity, gas, phone etc) to come and go unsupervised in their homes, according to new research by home insurer MORE TH>N. | |
| Social Issues | More Than – July 2006 |
| Recent research into what makes people happy reveals that multicultural communities tend to be less trusting and consequently less happy. Home Office research suggests that the more ethically diverse an area is, the less likely people are to trust each other. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelical Times – July 2006 |
| A team from Newcastle University claim to have found a way of making people behave more honestly. They found people put three times more money into an honesty box when they were being watched by a pair of eyes on a poster. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 28th July 2006 |
| Despite the government’s tough line on anti-social behaviour in the run up to the World Cup and the introduction of ASBOs, new research reveals that anti-social behaviour remains Britons’ number one safety concern. | |
| Social Issues | YouGov – 3rd May 2006 |
| Nearly two thirds of people who have fallen out with their neighbours did so because they were too noisy. Around 64% of people who have had a dispute with the people next door said it was about noise, double the number of people who had fallen out about on street parking. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 12th May 2006 |
| Latest figures show that more than a fifth of appeals against Home Office asylum decisions are upheld – that is, the initial decision is found to be a poor one. | |
| Social Issues | The Third Way – June 2006 |
| Despite being richer, Britons are less happy today than they were in the 1950s. Just over a third of people said they were very happy in modern Britain, compared to more than half of those polled in 1957. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 3rd May 2006 |
| The number of refugees has fallen to its lowest point for a quarter of a century, according to the United Nations refugee agency. The return of millions to nations such as Afghanistan, Angola, and Sierra Leone means the 9.2 million refugees globally was the lowest in 25 years. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 19th April 2006 |
| Millions of British women suffer from low self-esteem. Research shows a lack of self-confidence is damaging relationships, job prospects, mental health and quality of life. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 27th March 2006 |
| One in ten teenagers have been victims of cyber bullying, such as receiving threatening emails or having unpleasant rumours about them spread on the internet. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 15th March 2006 |
| Single people suffer discrimination at the hands of a couplist society despite making up 38% of the adult population. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 24th January 2006 |
| The number of people using the MSN Messenger service in the UK has topped the 10 million mark. More than 3.7 billion messages are now sent every year in the UK. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 24th February 2006 |
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