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| There are 17,000 people under 65 living with dementia in the UK. One in three people over 65 will develop dementia. There are over 11,000 people in Staffordshire living with dementia. Research show that 800,000 people in the UK have a form of dementia, with more than half having Alzheimer’s disease. In less than 10 years one million people will be living with dementia. This will soar to 1.7 million people by 2051. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, May 23, 2014 |
| Prime Minister David Cameron’s assertion that Britain is a ‘Christian country’ sparked controversy, with claims from secularists that the statement was divisive and untrue. His comments drew fire from secularists, with a letter to The Daily Telegraph signed by 50 public figures headed by the president of the British Humanist Association, Professor Jim Al-Khalili saying: ‘We object to his characterisation of Britain as a “Christian country” and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders.’ It continued: ‘Apart from in the narrow constitutional sense that we continue to have an established Church, Britain is not a “Christian country”. Constantly to claim otherwise fosters alienation and division in our society.’ | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity, June 2014 |
| A Florida teacher is facing a lawsuit after forcing a 12-year-old student to call his parents for reading his Bible during free reading time, it was reported in May. Giovanni Rubeo, a student in Fort Lauderdale, brought out his Bible in free reading time and had been told to put it away by this teacher, who called his home stating that he was ‘not permitted to read [religious] books in my classroom’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now, June 2014 |
| Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial bill allowing men to take multiple wives without consulting existing spouses, it was reported in early May. Christian leaders, who had called on the president to reject the legislation, said the new laws undermine the values of marriage and the family. A Kenyan archbishop said the law would be demeaning to women since it does not respect the principle of equality of spouses in marriage. | |
| Family | Evangelicals Now, June 2014 |
| Google has bowed to pressure from American ‘pro-choice’ group NARAL by agreeing to ban advertisements for crisis pregnancy centres that educate women on the alternative options to abortion, it was reported in early May. NARAL campaigned extensively to force Google to remove advertisements for pro-life pregnancy services after complaining that the adverts appeared 79% of the time when users entered the search terms ‘abortion clinics’. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, June 2014 |
| Christians are afforded less protection for their beliefs by the state compared to those who practise other religions, suggests a late April survey. Of the 2000 people surveyed exclusively for The Telegraph, nearly half thought British believers had less protection. This figure rises to 62% among those who identify as non-practising Christians. The poll also reveals that 56% see Britain as a Christian country. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now, June 2014 |
| Married couples should be able to get ‘over the counter’ divorces at register offices and avoid judicial supervision, the most senior family judge in England and Wales suggested in early May. Sir James Munby also called for cohabiting couples to have similar legal protections to those who are married. Speaking to judges and lawyers in London, Munby also called for divorces to be fault-free, essentially meaning that neither party takes responsibility for ending the marriage. | |
| Family | Evangelicals Now, June 2014 |
| David Cameron has set out the red lines for any future coalition negotiations by issuing an “absolutely” cast-iron guarantee that he will stage a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. The Prime Minister insisted he will not return to No 10 unless he can secure an agreement that the in/out vote will go ahead in 2017. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel, May 12, 2014 |
| Digger-maker JCB delivered earnings of £313 million last year after seeing a resurgence of sales in the UK and Ireland. The business weathered global issues, such as an economic slowdown in emerging markets, political uncertainty and adverse movements in the exchange rate, to turn over £2.68 billion in 2013, about the same as the previous year. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, May 12, 2014 |
| Three in four Americans still believe the Bible as the word of God – 28 per cent of Americans believe that the Bible is the actual word of God and that it should be taken literally. This is somewhat below the 38% to 40% seen in the late 1970s, and near the all-time low of 27% reached in 2001 and 2009. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society |
| George Osborne appears to have admitted defeat on the Tory pledge to bring annual net migration below 100,000 by the General Election next year. The Chancellor said progress had been made on reducing numbers, but suggested Britain’s relationship with the EU would need to be negotiated after May 2015 to deliver David Cameron’s promise. He also warned that border controls will be loosened again if Labour returns to government. Official figures showed net migration – the number coming to the UK for at least a year, minus the numbers leaving – rose 58,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, June 2, 2014 |
| Millions face a postcode lottery in GP services as chronic underfunding has left doctors’ surgeries “on the brink of collapse”. Research carried out by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) showed a stark divide in access to doctors, with people living in the most deprived communities facing the longest waiting times. The study found that 22 per cent of people in Bradford raised concerns about not being able to make an appointment with their GP. Whereas the figure was just five per cent in Bath. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, June 2, 2014 |
| Reform of pensions is at the heart of the Government legislative programme for the coming year in a Queen’s Speech which also offered a limited right for voters to recall misbehaving MPs, support for ‘fracking’ to produce shale gas, and measures to help small businesses. Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg hailed the programme for the coalition’s final year as ‘unashamedly pro-work, pro-business and pro-aspiration’. Heavily-trailed reforms abolishing the requirement for pensioners to buy annuities and allowing workers to join Dutch-style collective pension schemes would deliver the biggest transformation in provision for the elderly since the inception of the system, they said. | |
| The Elderly | The Sentinel, June 5, 2014 |
| House prices have reached a new all-time high of £186,512 on average after leaping by 11.1 per cent in 12 months, figures from building society Nationwide show. The new peak seen in May surpasses a previous record set in October 2007, before the financial downturn took hold, when property values reached £186,044 across the UK. The latest increase in house prices marks the strongest annual growth since June 2007. The figures sparked more speculation further steps could be taken to rein in the housing market. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel, June 4, 2014 |
| Thirty-eight percent of working fathers would take a pay cut to spend more time with their children. (Careerbuilder, 2009) | |
| Family | Romance Academy - 14th June 2014 |
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