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| Adults are worried about the values children are learning from people around them, according to research conducted for the Children’s Society. Two thirds of adults who responded to the poll – carried out for the Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Inquiry – thought that the moral values of children today are not as strong as when they were growing up. | |
| Young People | The War Cry - July 5th 2008 |
| Leading supermarkets are making little progress in increasing their recyclable packaging, a report out today said. Up to 38 per cent of packaging cannot be recycled, down 2 per cent from the first report in October last year, the Local Government Association (LGA) warned. Marks & Spencer and Lidl used the lowest percentage of packaging which could be recycled at 62%. M&S took the same title last year. And Lidl was again the worst offender when it came to the total volume of packaging used, with a basket of groceries usig 813g, up from 799.5g last year. The local market used the least weighty packaging (617g) and the highest amount that could be recycled at 76 per cent. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel - May 29th 2008 |
| Women living in countries where abortion is restricted – including Northern Ireland – are using the internet to buy medication enabling them to perform an abortion at home, it emerged today. A medical study found more than one in 10 customers on one of the most well-known websites needed a surgical procedure after taking the medication. Women in more than 70 countries have used the site Women on Web to purchase the drugs for £55 a time. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 11th 2008 |
| Britons often fall in love with television stars and suffer “TV trauma” when their favourite shows end, a survey claimed today. The study of 1,586 people commissioned by Tiscali TV, investigated the role of the small screen in British life. It found that one in three Britons had fallen in love with a TV character. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel May - 29th 2008 |
| The RSPCA launched a campaign today to highlight the “unethical” business of “puppy trafficking”. The charity revealed almost three quarters of vets were concerned about the “despicable” trade in puppies, imported into Britain and then sold. Consumer Direct, the government advisory service, received more than 700 puppy-related calls in 2007, many of which concerned animals who became ill soon after purchase. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - June 11th 2008 |
| Sickness absence is costing manufacturing firms up to £610 million a year. The Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) said sickness levels had remained stable at almost 7 days per worker over the past year after a slight fall in previous years. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - May 13th 2008 |
| The variety of food available to troops will double in a bid to banish “menu fatigue”. New nutritionally balanced meals are being designed to banish the need for supplements, the Ministry of Defence announced. An MoD spokesman said: “These new menus have been developed to meet the needs of service personnel operating in the extreme climates of Afghanistan and Iraq.” | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel - June 25th 2008 |
| Parents in some of England’s most deprived communities are to be given £200 grants in return for taking part in programmes to improve the health and social development of their children. The £13 million Child Development Grant Scheme will be unveiled by the Prime Minister as part of what he will identify as “the greatest of our time – to build a fairer, more prosperous and upwardly mobile Britain”. Ten pilot projects in low-income neighbourhoods will trial the one-off grants as part of a £125 million three-year drive to find innovative solutions to child poverty. The pilots will test whether offering cash incentives can encourage parents to participate in action to improve children’s well-being. | |
| Family | The Sentinel - June 23rd 2008 |
| Chef Gordon Ramsay has called for legislation to ban restaurants from selling fruit and vegetables which are out of season. Ramsay said he wanted to see home-grown produce on menus not asparagus in December or Kenyan strawberries in March. “When we haven’t got it take it off the menu,” he said. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel - May 9th 2008 |
| A Travel agent has been named the cheapest place to convert foreign currency, offering better value than banks and the Post Office. Which? said First Choice offered the best deals for holidaymakers looking to buy $500, charging a total of £260.42. Marks & Spencer came in second place, charging £260.69, followed by HSBC at £261.10. Thomas Cook was the most expensive, with consumers paying £274.73. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel - June 25th 2008 |
| Liverpool, home to names from Cilla Black to The Beatles, has been named the nation’s most musical city. Ten cities have been competing over six weeks for the title, voted for by the public. Liverpool, this year’s European Capital of Culture, scooped the top spot followed by Sheffield, birth place of Artic Monkeys and Pulp. Manchester, whose acts include Oasis and The Smiths came third. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel - June 17th 2008 |
| The Government has been condemned by a leading charity for its treatment of the elderly. Figures revealed by Help The Aged show that almost two-thirds of the population believes that the Government does not take pensioners’ needs seriously. Spokesman Kate Jopling said legislation should be introduced to put ageism on an equal footing with racism and sexism. | |
| The Elderly | The Sentinel - May 9th 2008 |
| Equality Minister Harriet Harmen today plans to encourage firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minorities job candidates. The new Equalities Bill is also expected to force employers to disclose salary structures in a bid to make the pay gap between men and women more transparent. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - June 26th 2008 |
| The government said pilot schemes testing micro-chipped wheelie bins will go ahead even though one council which tried out the technology scrapped it after it “failed to work”. The micro-chips enable bins to be weighed by the refuse lorry so the amount each household recycles and throws away can be checked. South Norfolk Council became the first in England to use the scheme which it introduced in 2002. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel - June 17th 2008 |
| UK households are throwing out £10 billion of edible food every year, a study revealed today. The average household throws out one third of all food bought, wasting £420 each year or £610 for those with children, the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap) said. The figure is £2 billion higher than previously estimated, the report said. The Government described the figures as “staggering” and “shocking”. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel - May 8th 2008 |
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