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| BBC director-general Tony Hall has warned he cannot rule out more cuts as he confirmed digital channel BBC3 is moving online to save £50 million a year. The channel will be replaced with a BBC1 +1 service and an extra hour of children’s programmes and some of its existing shows will be shown on BBC1 and BBC2. Tens of thousands of viewers have signed a petition opposing the move. | |
| Media | The Sentinel, March 7, 2014 |
| The number of under-18s admitted to adult mental health wards or treated on them is rising, figures show. Despite Government pledges the practice would be stamped out by 2010, more children spent time on adult wards in the first eight months of 2013/14 than the whole of the previous year. Data shows from April 2013 to November 2013, 250 under-18s spent time on adult mental health wards. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, March 12, 2014 |
| Barclays has defied calls for pay restraint as it announced a 10 per cent hike in its staff poll to £2.4 billion – while confirming plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs this year. The group said around 7,000 jobs would go in the UK – including some branch-based roles – under plans to slash costs, adding that around half of the affected employees had already been informed. It fuelled anger over City pay following a controversial bonus increase on last year’s £2.2 billion haul, which comes despite a 32 per cent drop in underlying annual profits to £5.2 billion. The bumper payout will see its 26,200 investment banking employees share out a £1.6 billion bonus pot for 2013, up 13 per cent on 2012, giving as average pay-out of £60,100 employee in the division. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, February 12, 2014 |
| Courts in two southern hemisphere nations made rulings in mid-December which preserve marriage as being between one man and one woman. Australia’s High Court overturned legalisation which allowed same-sex ‘marriages’ to take place in Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The regional ACT parliament passed legislation in October which made it legal for same-sex couples to marry in the territory. But the national government challenged the legalisation because it contravened federal law. In India the Supreme Court has upheld a law which bans homosexual acts. This ruling reverses a 2009 ruling by the Delhi High Court which decriminalised homosexual acts. The Indian government is already coming under pressure from the UN to review the ruling and make homosexual acts legal. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, February 2014 |
| The Belgian Senate in December voted in favour of an alarming bill that would give children the right to seek euthanasia. The vote of 50-17 in favour of the proposal will now go to the House of Representatives for further scrutiny. If this Bill is enacted in law, a 12-year-old child could decide on life or death without the consent of his or her parent(s)….Giving an overview of the experience in Belgium, where euthanasia was introduced 11 years ago, the professor noted that most requests for the procedure do not flow from physical pain, but from psychological suffering, including loneliness, loss of meaning and weariness of life. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, February 2014 |
| The St Vincent de Paul Society’s 10,000 volunteers have been rewarded and recognised by David Cameron with a Big Society Award for over a million hours of voluntary work a year. The international charity is committed to tackling disadvantage and loneliness, trains volunteers, and provides practical help to many in need. This includes work in schools with over 1,000 young people. | |
| Social Issues | Youthwork, March 2014 |
| Hundreds of thousands of children could be saved from being exposed to second-hand smoke in cars after MPs paved the way for legislation which could see an end to the practice. Leading medical charities have said they are ‘delighted’ that MPs voted in favour of outlawing smoking in vehicles carrying children. The Commons have given the health secretary the power to impose a ban despite the opposition of some MPs, including members of the Cabinet. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, February 11, 2014 |
| Liberal Democrat John Hemming is lobbying to reduce or suspend airport passenger duty at peak travel times to make family holidays more affordable. A debate took place in Westminster Hall after an e-petition on the issue received 166,229 signatures. The Government said international demand at peak times meant high prices. The petition says: Family time is so much more essential in the current working world, but so many people can’t afford holidays in school holidays. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel, February 25, 2014 |
| The UK’s Big Six energy suppliers are to be hit with financial penalties if they fail to meet new rules aimed at helping smaller firms break into the market. Regulator Ofgem wants to ensure firms such as British Gas and the largest independent generators trade fairly with other suppliers in the wholesale market. Under new rules from the end of next month, they will have to open up their finances to more scrutiny, including publishing the price at which they will trade wholesale power up to two years in advance. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, February 27, 2014 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland faced anger over bonuses as it revealed a £576 million handout to staff despite slumping into the red by £8.2 billion and admitting losses had now reached £46 billion over the past six years. Chief executive Ross McEwan pledged to rebuild trust in the group with a mammoth overhaul that will slash costs by £5 billion within three years and see it shrink from seven divisions to three and warned of further job losses. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, February 28, 2014 |
| Tesco has deactivated some consumers’ net accounts after their login names and passwords were shared online. The list of more than 2,000 Tesco.com accounts was posted to a popular text-sharing site yesterday. The supermarket giant said the data had been compiled by the hackers using details stolen from other sites. Those affected said their login details were correct and one added the attackers had used them to steal store vouchers. Tesco said It was ‘urgently investigating’ the appearance of the data. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, February 14, 2014 |
| UK Chancellor George Osborne has said a vote for Scottish independence would mean walking away from the pound. He said there was ‘no legal reason’ why the rest of the UK would want to share sterling with an independent Scotland, as Scottish ministers have proposed. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, February 14, 2014 |
| Around one in six GPs have been asked to refer patients to a foodbank in the past year, a snapshot poll suggests. The survey of 522 family doctors for GP magazine Pulse found 16% had been asked to refer patients. It comes after Pulse reported concerns among GP leaders that practices are being put in an ‘impossible position’ by charities that require a referral before they will offer help. Such referrals are aimed at making sure support reaches the neediest and can come from places such as schools, GPs and job centres. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, February 19, 2014 |
| Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric has called for political leaders to extinguish ‘the discourse of fear’ that plagues immigration’s contribution to the economy. The Most Rev Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, said migrant workers helped ensure large cities were able to ‘carry on working’, and said it was time for senior politicians to ‘appeal to do something more normal and more substantial than fear’ when discussing foreign workers’ contribution to the economy. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel, February 19, 2014 |
| Murderers who commit the most ‘heinous’ of crimes can be sent to prison for the rest of their lives, leading judges have ruled. Backing the use of ‘life-means-life’ orders, a panel of five judges at the Court of Appeal increased the ‘unduly lenient’ 40-year minimum being served by killer Ian McLoughlin, who murdered a man while on day release, to a whole-life term. And they dismissed a challenge by Lee Newell, who murdered a child killer while in prison, against an order imposed in his case that he can never be released. The guidance from the appeal judges come in the wake of a decision by the European Court of Human Rights last year in an appeal by three murderers. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, February 19, 2014 |
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