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| Cost-Cutting car owners are regularly running out of fuel as they try to economise during this period of record high petrol prices, it was revealed today. Many motorists are “driving on empty” with 20 per cent saying they can no longer afford to fill their tank right up, a survey by breakdown company Britannia Rescue found. In the last three months, 340,000 drivers have suffered a breakdown due to running out of fuel. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel - July 18th 2008 |
| Twelve-year-old girls are being treated for sexually transmitted infections and doctors say binge drinking is to blame. They are among the 200 children diagnosed every month in Britain with sex-related diseases including ghonorrhoea and syphilis. A total of 627 under-18’s were treated last year at just one of the country’s leading sexual health clinics, St Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth. More than 100 of them were under 16 and in one case, a 12-year old girl was diagnosed with herpes – an incurable disease, which can cause fatal infections in babies born to mothers who have it. In 2006 2,282 under-16s were diagnosed with sex diseases, official figures show. | |
| Health | Youthwork - June 2008 |
| Gas prices are likely to soar and remain high, it has been reported. Channel Four News said it had seen an internal report for the company Centrica which suggested gas prices could rise by 70 per cent. Jake Ulrich, managing director of Centrica Energy, told the programme: “I think it is going to hit people hard.” He admitted that gas price rises were likely to lead to a “potentially significant” rise in the number of people in fuel poverty. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel - July 18th 2008 |
| Doing excercise helps teenagers feel confident, according to a recent study from Manchester Metropolitan and Edinburgh. The five-year study revealed that teenagers’ physical self-worth decreased significantly between the ages of 11 to 16 in females but not males. It found that there was a sharp decline in physical activity for girls aged 11-15 but not for their male classmates. | |
| Health | Youthwork - June 2008 |
| Three-Quarters of potential first-time buyers are abandoning plans to get on to the property ladder because of the current housing market downturn, a survey showed today. Around 74 per cent of people said they were putting plans to buy their first home on hold, according to foreign exchange group Moneycorp. A third also said they had tried to buy a home during the past six months, but had been refused a mortgage. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel - July 18th 2008 |
| The weakness of the pound against the euro could mean more Britons are visiting places prone to malaria, travel association Abta said today. Abta said trips to France and Spain could be replaced by visits to malaria-prone locations like India and Africa. More than 1,500 UK travellers returned with malaria last year. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel - May 12th 2008 |
| Thousands of families have still not been able to return to their homes after the floods of almost a year ago, it was revealed today. Some 3,429 households were still displaced at the end of June as a result of the damage wreaked last summer, according to figures released today by the department for Communities and Local Government. However, the Government stressed that the figures were a marked improvement on May, when 4,716 were displaced. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel - July 16th 2008 |
| Lie detectors could one day be used to spot people who are “pulling a sickie” from work. The technology is already being used to identify people making fraudulent benefit claims. Now employers have given a cautious welcome to the idea of using the Voice Risk Analysis system to identify people who may be lying when they phone in sick. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - May 12th 2008 |
| Some Britons are becoming “tuck-shop tourists” by taking their own food abroad to avoid upset stomachs, it was revealed today. As many as 18 per cent of families take such items as soup and cereal away with them to avoid eating foreign food, a survey by Halifax Travel Insurance found. Spain was the country where most Britons fell ill. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel - July 16th 2008 |
| The UK offers among the lowest quality of life in Europe despite residents earning the highest incomes, according to research released today. The price of fuel, below average spending on health and education, short holidays and late retirement place the UK just above Ireland at the bottom of the Switch.com European quality of life index. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - July 16th 2008 |
| Britain’s tax bill has increased by more than 50 per cent in the past 10 years under labour, it was claimed today. A report by the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group said the total tax burden now stood at £517 billion a year – or £20,700 per household. That compared with a tax take of £294 billion in 1997-98 when Labour came to power. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - May 12th 2008 |
| Campaigners have slammed education chiefs who banned school sack and three legged races because of health and safety fears. Teachers at John F Kennedy Primary in Washington, Tyne and Wear, dropped the races amid fears a child would fall over and be hurt. It followed talks with the Beamish Open Air Museum, where the event will be staged. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - July 14th 2008 |
| Viagra may protect the hearts of muscular dystrophy patients, a study suggests. The anti-impotence drug was shown to reduce damage to the hearts of mice with a verion of the human disease. Scientists believe it could do the same for people afflicted with muscular dystrophy. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - May 13th 2008 |
| The number of cancer survivors in the UK has hit two million – a massive increase on previous estimates. Macmillan Cancer Support, which commissioned the study, said health trusts’ failure to provide resources for the long-term care of these patients was a “ticking time bomb”. Until now, health charities have quoted findings from the 1990s showing that the UK has 1.2 million people living with or after cancer. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 14th 2008 |
| More than two million people have emigrated to the UK in the last 16 years. Migrationwatch said government figures showed 2.3 million foreigners moved to this country between 1991 and 2006. Eight per cent of them – around 200,000 – were from Eastern Europe. Net migration in the period was less than two million as around 422,000 people left the country. | |
| World Issues | The Sentinel - June 2nd 2008 |
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