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| The UK has the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe, and in some areas, infection from STD's has risen by 30% among 16 to 19 year olds. One in eight girls aged 16 are reported to have taken the morning after pill. Also in England 40,000 teenagers a year seek treatment for STI's. | |
| Sex | Youthwork magazine, June 2004 |
| Listening via digital radio platforms has helped to increase national commercial radio's reach to a record 13 million. 28.7 per cent of adults saying they have listened via a TV set. | |
| Entertainment | The Radio Magazine - June 2004 |
| An NOP poll commishioned by the Salvation Army found that 93 per cent of the public felt there were enough opportunities to gamble in the UK. 82 per cent of the population think that people are more likely to lose money if they drink alcohol while gambling. The poll was conducted by telephone between November 28-30 2003 among a nationally representative sample of 973 adults aged 18 and over. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Methodist Recorder - 17th June 2004 |
| A new study in America shows that Christians have been active in piracy. In the past six months, 77 per cent of those surveyed admitted to engaging in music piracy. Just 10 per cent of Christian teenagers believe that copying CDs for feiends and unauthorised music downloading are morally wrong, compared with six per cent of non-christians. | |
| Crime | The Church of England Newspaper - 27th May 2004 |
| Darius Danesh, who found fame on the ITV talent show Pop Idol has been quoted as saying- I don't go out to get drunk. I've got a job and I've got responsibilities now and I hope I'd be a good role model for my little brother. That's always at the back of my mind because I want him to grow up with the same values and grow up with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong and a strong sense of faith. I suppose I was shaped as a child through my visits to the South Church in Bearsden. I feel very blessed to have these opportunities as a songwriter and a singer and to be able to travel and I'm focused on enjoying this growing creating process. | |
| What famous people say | Life and Work - June 2004 |
| Experts believe cocaine use has become far more prevalent in Britain in the last 10 years. A recent survey by the music magazine MixMag suggested it could soon overtake ecstasy as the dance drug of choice in clubs. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Guardian |
| According to the most recent British Crime Survey figures, for 2001-2, 58,000 people had used the smokable and highly addictive "crack" form of cocaine within the previous 12 months, and 622,000 people had used pure cocaine. In the US, it is estimated that 900,000 people a year present themselves at clinics for treatment for cocaine dependency. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Guardian |
| Newly released national figures show that between 1995 and 2003, anti-depressant prescriptions for 16-18 year olds in full time education trebled. Across the country, 140,000 young people were taking the tablets. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Sentinel Sunday |
| A survey of children in Europe and North America, released by the World Health Organisation last week, revealed high levels of binge drinking and underage, unprotected sex among British teenagers. Recent research consistently shows that in the UK there is close to gender parity in the consumption of alcohol and in having sex at an early age. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Guardian |
| North Staffordshire's teenage pregnancy rate has fallen by 10% in five years but it is still running at between a third and half above the national average. | |
| Sex | The Sentinel, June 7 2004 |
| Germany's justice minister has vowed to introduce legislation to permit same-sex marriages before the end of the summer, overriding the objections of the country's powerful conservative lobby. Gay couples have been able to register their relationships since 2001, but the new laws will grant them almost all of the same rights as married heterosexuals. About 5,000 same-sex couples have registered lifetime partnerships. In France Noel Mamere, the mayor of Begles in the south west of France, presided over the country's first gay marriage at the weekend, despite warnings that he was breaking the law. | |
| Politics | The Guardian, June 8 2004 |
| Walsingham (about an hour's drive from Norwich and recently voted Britain's most spiritual place) is often described as off the beaten track but nevertheless manages to welcome around 45,000 pilgrim visitors a year. The village has been welcoming pilgrims since medieval times so we are not doing anything new! Now, seven years on, we welcome around 6,000 youngsters a year on school visits from Key Stage 1 upwards plus a further 1,000 a year who come on organised children's and youth pilgrimages with their parishes. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Act Now - Summer 2004 |
| Albanian - Population 3m; 90 per cent live abroad. Economy: one of Europe's poorest countries. Income per person is two per cent of USA's. According to Operation World, 74 per cent of the population claim a faith in God, despite Albania's legacy of nearly 50 years of atheistic Marxism, which collapsed in 1991. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Idea - May/June 2004 |
| A survey carried out in 2001, sought to discover whether religion was relevant in the lives of people in England and Wales. Of those questioned, 78 per cent said they have a religious affiliation. The largest number (74 per cent) described themselves as Christian, with Muslims (2 per cent) and Hindus (1 per cent) as the next largest groups. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The War Cry - 29th May 2004 |
| In the sub-Saharan Africa 314 million people live on less than US$1 per day. 840 million people are seriously under nourished. 104 million children receive no formal education and 60 million people have HIV/AIDS. | |
| Social Issues | Worldshare magazine - Summer 2004 |
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