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| New Parents will be handed money advice packs by the UK’s finance watchdog. The packs contain advice on budgeting, benefits and the cost of childcare. They will be distributed by midwives to mothers in the early stages of pregnancy. The Parents Guide to Money also addresses such topics as maternity leave and savings. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - February 19th 2008 |
| 2.2 million embryos had been destroyed or experimented on since 1990 with not one single cure having been established, adult stem cell research had led to 80 cures world wide, with over 350 clinical trails going on. | |
| Health | The Universe – 3rd February 2008 |
| Managers are supporting a union campaign against the UK’s long-hours culture, after research showed that senior staff put in around 40 extra days a year. A survey of 1,500 managers reveals that efforts to reduce hours in recent years had failed, with nine out of 10 of those questioned regularly working over their contracted hours. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - February 19th 2008 |
| At least 27 young people in Britain have killed themselves after visiting “suicide sites” in the past six years. | |
| Social Issues | Salvationist – 26th January 2008 |
| Details of a new deal for foreigners who want to take British citizenship will be announced by the home secretary Jacqui Smith today. A Green Paper will propose that people who want to take UK Nationality must prove a number of new requirements and “earn” their citizenship. Details are expected to focus on learning English and obeying the law. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - 20th February 2008 |
| The total number of DAB sets sold in the UK now stands at 6.45 million – up from 4.4 million in 2006. More than a million digital receivers were sold between October and December with more than 550,000 sets sold in December alone. | |
| Media | The Weekly Radio magazine – 30th January/5th February 2008 |
| Britons are turning to self-diagnosis kits to check their health, according to a new report by market analyst Mintel. The report shows that sales of products, devices and tests for measuring such things as body fat have increased by almost 30% in the past 5 years. Alexandra Richmond, senior consumer analyst at Mintel, says: ‘as a nation we are constantly bombarded with health warnings and are becoming more aware of the growing obesity problem. This, combined with the fact that people are finding it increasingly difficult to get a doctors appointment, means they are choosing to go it alone when it comes to their health. | |
| Health | War Cry - 26th January 2008 |
| Today, single parents head 62 per cent of African-American households, and 68 per cent of African- American children are born out of wedlock. The percentage is more than double that of white single-parent households (27 per cent) and nearly twice as high as that of Hispanic single-parent families (35 per cent.) | |
| Family | Charisma and Christian Life – February 2008. |
| Earlier this month TV news carried details of research carried out for the Children’s Society. In it’s Good Childhood Inquiry, the society found that 61% of parents say they don’t get enough time to spend with their children, and almost half (48 per cent) said they’d put their career first, even if it adversely affected family time. The vast majority of children surveyed (70 per cent) said the most important thing they wanted from their parent(s) wasn’t a bigger house or the latest must-have video game, it was love. | |
| Family | War Cry 26th January 2008 |
| The general secretary of the Christian Medical Fellowship has criticised the decision by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority to grant licences to scientists who want to use human-animal hybrid embryos in research. Dr Peter Saunders said that ‘researchers in Japan and the USA have now produced embryonic-like stem cells from human skin cells’, meaning that animal-human hybrids were not only unethical but also ‘simply unnecessary’ | |
| Science | War Cry 26th January 2008 |
| 2006 had the highest number of people attending Christmas services since 2000, with 2,994,100 attending in 2006. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Church of England Newspaper – 1st February 2008 |
| Britian’s first “pensioners’ playground” has opened with one elderly user declaring it made her “feel 21 again” the £15,000 outdoor facility in Dam Head Park, Blackley, Greater Manchester, features six pieces of fitness equipment designed specifically to provide gentle exercise for the over 60’s | |
| The Elderly | The Sentinel January 31st 2008 |
| Churches are being warned their Gift Aid claims will lose 11 per cent of their value following changes to the basic rate of income tax from April 5th. | |
| Money | The Church of England Newspaper – 1st February 2008 |
| One million visitors have made their way to the BBC iPlayer website since the service was officially launched on Christmas Day. The iPlayer offers users the opportunity to either stream or download BBC programming on demand. Streaming allows users to view the programmes from the previous 7 days instantly while those who download can keep the programmes for up to 30 days. According to the BBC, over 3.5 million programmes have been streamed or downloaded since the launch, an average of a quarter of a million per day. | |
| Media | CSI Jan/Feb 2008 |
| The Government today ruled that broadcasting giant BSkyB must offload some of its controversial 17.9 per cent stake in ITV. Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise, John Hutton, has told Sky it must sell-down the shareholding to below 7.5 per cent and cannot take a seat on ITV’s board. The decision could cost Sky around £250 million. | |
| Media | The Sentinel – 29th January 2008 |
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