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| A pan-African leadership initiative in Ghana has issued a resounding call to fight corruption among governments and multi-national corporations. Leaders at the African Biblical Leadership Initiative (ABLI) – including a representative of the President of Ghana – signed a declaration calling on the G20 to ‘take a stand against greed, secret deals and the abuse of public influence’. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 23rd May 2014 |
| A ‘substantial’ number of eastern European migrants arriving in Britain in the last decade were not counted. Net migration in the UK between 2001 and 2011 was 346,000 higher than previously thought as a result of ‘inadequate sampling’ of arrivals into the country, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Arrivals were not counted in part because an official survey focused on major airports, such as London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Manchester, while migrants were using an increasing number of regional routes into the country. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, April 11, 2014 |
| Thousands of people across the region could be putting themselves at risk of potentially life threatening illness through failure to recognise they are obese. More than 3,100 people in the West Midlands were surveyed on the issue by healthcare experts Nuffield Health. More than half – 59 percent – of those questioned said they considered themselves to be merely over weight while just 5 percent perceived themselves as obese. But following tests much more of them – 13 per cent – were measured as obese. Despite awareness campaigns, the research also showed a significant lack of understanding among the population about obesity health risks. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, April 11, 2014 |
| Figures from the office of National Statistics show that in the UK, unemployment fell by 77,000 in the last three months, taking the unemployment rate to 6.9 per cent for the first time since 2009. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel, April 17, 2014 |
| When asked: How happy are you? 75% of UK respondents said they were ‘very happy’. This was slightly above average (73%). Mexicans were the happiest, with 92% saying they were ‘very happy’, and the Japanese were the least happy, with only 50% using this phrase to describe themselves. | |
| Odd Facts | Christianity, April 2014 |
| The number of young people accepted for training for the Church of England ministry has continued to rise and now represents nearly a quarter of the total. In figures that belie the image of the Church as ageing and declining, statistics collated for 2013 show that people under the age of 30 now account for 23% of all those entering training and that young ordinands are at their highest level for 20 years. In both 2012 and 2013, 113 young people were accepted for training. In the previous eight years an average of 93 were under 30. | |
| Church | Christianity, April 2014 |
| In the last eleven years the Street Pastors movement has grown from a local initiative to a movement operating in 250 towns across 7 countries. In that time 9,000 volunteers have been trained to engage with young people on the streets of our city and thousands upon thousands of people have been touched by the work of the Street Pastors. | |
| Social Issues | Together, May-June 2014 |
| A respected international think-tank has upgraded its growth forecast for the UK to 3.2% this year – but warned that action may be needed to cool the housing market. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revised its estimate from 2.4%, saying it believed the recovery has now ‘taken hold’. But it cautioned that consumer spending remained the main driver of growth, and urged the Government to consider measures to ensure ‘balanced’ house price rises. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, May 7, 2014 |
| A new ComRes poll has found that 50% of people still believe that marriage is a lifelong commitment between one man and one woman. Only 37% disagree. 62% believe that, although death and divorce may prevent it, children have the best chance in life if raised by a mother and father in a committed, permanent relationship. Just 25% disagreed. | |
| Family | Coalition For Marriage |
| An opinion poll conducted by ComRes has found that more than one third of voters (34%) believe that 'David Cameron has undermined Christianity in this country'. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern |
| A sweeping parenting law that would criminalise emotional neglect will reportedly be included in the Queen’s Speech on June 4. The new law would carry a maximum prison sentence of ten years for anyone who deliberately harms a child’s “physical, intellectual, emotional, social or behavioural development”. But critics have warned against the legislation saying it would mean that “every mother and father is at risk of being labelled an abuser”. | |
| The Law | Christian Institute - 23rd May 2014 |
| An MEP has labelled a European carbon tax ruling which threatens the pottery industry as ‘perverse’. Lib Dem West Midlands MEP Phil Bennion is calling on the Government to respond swiftly to the EU’s decision on Britain’s carbon price floor compensation scheme. Brussels ruled that the scheme, which helps ceramics and glass producers, contravened state rules. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, May 8, 2014 |
| Interest rates have been kept at their historic low of 0.5 per cent as mounting pressure to cool the housing market failed to persuade the Bank of England to change course. The announcement was widely expected as policymakers have said they would rather utilise other tools to curb any property bubble before acting on rates, which would only be deployed as a ‘last line of defence’. The decision came as latest figures from the Halifax showing a second consecutive month-on-month fall in house prices in April – though they were 8.5 per cent year-on-year – looked likely the ease concerns about an overheating market. The Bank rate has been at the historic low of 0.5 per cent for more than five years to nurse the economy back to health. With the recovery gathering pace, policymakers have made clear they want to see more of the ‘spare capacity’ in the economy taken up before any hike, leading to expectations of a first rise next spring. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, May 9, 2014 |
| A campaign has been launched for Stoke-on-Trent to be named the country’s first ‘City of Football’. Politicians and clubs are joining forces to win £1.6 million to invest in the grassroots game across the Potteries. Sports England is inviting bids for the cash with Liverpool, Hull and Northampton among the other areas hoping to take the title. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is now to see whether the city qualifies for the funding. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, May 1, 2014 |
| Government officials have ordered Stoke-on-Trent City Council to check that lamb curries and kebabs being sold by takeaways don’t contain any other meat. It comes after the Foods Standards Agency (FSA) found that 43 out of 145 samples of lamb takeaways in London and Birmingham were wrongly described. The FSA said 25 were found to contain only beef, which is cheaper than lamb, while chicken and turkey were discovered in the other samples. Now local authorities across the country are being asked to test 300 samples of lamb from takeaways in their area, starting next month. The crackdown comes after one city takeaway was shut down after experts discovered one of their lamb curries was, in fact, beef. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel, April 18, 2014 |
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