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| Health Secretary Andy Burnham will speak later about the healthcare “time-bomb” facing Britain’s population. Huge pressures are being put on care services in the UK as people live longer and need more resources to look after them. In 1948 life expectancy was 66 while today it is 78. But a survey reveals the majority of the public is in the dark about the costs they will have to pay if they need long-term care. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 18 September 2009 |
| Fourteen women have been told they have breast cancer after initially being discharged by a consultant who conducted faulty mammograms. The women were given the news after colleagues of the senior radiologist, working for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, raised concerns about his work. In all, 355 mammograms, going back three years, had to be re-checked by an independent review. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 18 September 2009 |
| Children’s Secretary Ed Balls ordered a review of the Government’s scheme to vet around 11 million adults who work with adults or vulnerable children. Mr Balls said he wanted to look again at the scope of the Vetting and Barring scheme to make sure the “right balance” had been struck. There was outrage when it emerged parents who regularly give lifts to children on behalf of groups would have to undergo criminal records checks. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - 5 September 2009 |
| Union leaders have warned they will fight and attempt to cut public services. As Gordon Brown prepared to address delegates at the TUC Congress in Liverpool today, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “It is only when unemployment starts coming down, only when we create decent jobs that pay decent wages and only when vital public services are safe from cuts that we will be able to talk about a real recovery.” | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - 15 September 2009 |
| A prominent Irish priest has said the 250th anniversary of Guinness should be commemorated by a ban on drink advertising and an acknowledgement of the harm alcohol has caused from Diageo, the company which owns the brand. Fr Brendan Hoban said a prohibition on advertising would make sense and was achievable, provided there was a resolve to do it. And he called on Diageo to publicly acknowledge the harm alcohol had caused. | |
| Media | The Universe - 13 September 2009 |
| Abortion adverts will not be broadcast on TV in the UK until next year at the earliest after regulators delayed a review of the UK advertising code following protests from the public. The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) has decided to postpone publishing its findings until next year after it received around 4,000 submissions protesting against the move and expressing concern. | |
| Media | The Universe - 13 September 2009 |
| The State should set aside places in government for Maori representatives, the Diocese of Auckland said last week at its annual synod, as white majority rule does not always serve the best interests of minorities. “We are not simply all New Zealanders. We are made up of a number of differing peoples,” Bishop John Paterson told the synod meeting at Holy Trinity Cathedral on Sept 3, urging the government to take a provision for Maori representation in a reorganized Auckland regional council. | |
| World Issues | The Church of England - 11 September 2009 |
| Religion could have the answer to climate change after all, a distinguished scientist has said. Lord May, president of the British Science Association (BSA), said that evolutionary theory suggested that the concept of a ‘supernatural punisher’ had kept society civilized and helped hold it together in the past. Speaking just before the BSA’s annual conference, Lord May – a devout atheist – said religion could possibly fill that gap again. “Given that punishment is a useful mechanism, how much more effective it would be if you invested that power not in an individual you don’t like, but in an all-seeing, all-powerful deity that control the world,” he said. The scientist, who is a zoologist at Oxford University, added: “It makes for rigid, doctrinaire societies, but it tends to bind them.” This solution would be, “immensely stabilising in individual human cultures and societies, but unusually resistant to change,” he pointed out. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Church of England - 11 September 2009 |
| Supernatural belief is perfectly natural, a University of Bristol scientist has found, in new research that is being seized upon as a scientific riposte to Richard Dawkins. Professor Bruce Hood gave a talk on his new book Supersense: The brain science of belief, on Wednesday at the British Science Festival. He said: “The new idea is that the human mind spontaneously assumes the presence of hidden mechanisms, forces, energies and identifies patterns that are apparent rather than real. This begins early in development so I am arguing that the propensity to generate and accept supernatural beliefs is natural”. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Church of England - 11 September 2009 |
| The cost of subsidising the pensions of the richest 1% of the population is more than twice as much as for nurses, teachers and civil servants, according to a new report today. The TUC said taxpayers were paying £2.50 each on private sector “fat cat” pensions for every £1 on pay outs to retired public servants. Tax relief was “heavily skewed” towards the better off, the report said, with 60% of total relief going to higher rate taxpayers, including 25% – almost £10 billion a year – going to the top 1% of earners. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - 9 September 2009 |
| Councils focus too much on building new homes and should pay more attention to improving existing housing in their area, a report claimed today. Public spending watchdog the Audit Commission said councils felt pressured into focusing on building housing, with 94% prioritising new and affordable housing targets. But less than one in three councils had prioritised targets relating to their existing housing stock, despite the financial savings, environmental improvements and social benefits of doing so. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel - 9 September 2009 |
| The jobs market is improving for the first time in 17 months, with slight increases in permanent and temporary positions, according to a report today. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation said vacancies were still falling, but at a lower pace than at any time in the past year. Research among 400 recruitment consultancies also revealed that pay rates continued to fall in August, although at the lowest rate in 10 months. REC chief executive Kevin Green said these “green shoots” must be built upon. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - 9 September 2009 |
| His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman is set to cause more controversy with a new book denying Jesus was the son of God. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, due to be published at Easter, argues St Paul came up with the “story” that Jesus had a divine link. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Sentinel - September 2009 |
| A 50-year-old woman from southern Italy who visited Lourdes in a wheelchair after suffering from nerve disease has experienced a total cure and can now walk again. Doctors have said science cannot explain her cure, while her local bishop considers it a miracle. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Universe - September 2009 |
| Estimates of the number of people in the UK who could die in the flu pandemic have dropped to 19,000. Revised guidance for the NHS puts the range from 3,000 deaths to a “worst case scenario” of 19,000 – down from 65,000 reported in July. The figures do not include an assessment of what impact the swine flu vaccine – due in October – may have. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - September 2009 |
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