Key Quotes for 2004

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Internet shoppers spent an average £770 each last year on goods and services.
Shopping	Daily Mail - 24th September 2004



Young British women top Europe's binge league downing an average 203 litres of alcoholic drinks a year, the equivalent of 270 bottles of wine.
Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions	Daily Mail - 24th September 2004



One in 3 girls of ten is overweight. Only 60% of school girls and 70% of boys take the recommended minimum of 60 minutes exercise a day, according to a study for the British Heart Foundation. It was also found that 1 in 5 girls age 2 to 15 is overweight, including 7.8% who are classed as obese. 16% of boys are overweight with 5.7% obese. The problem is worst among 10 year old girls, 33% of whom are overweight.
Health	Daily Mail - 24th September 2004



50 years ago John Lewis sold secondary school girls blouses with chest sizes ranging from 28 to 36 inches. Now they are up to 44 inches. Skirt sizes have risen from 22 to 28 inches in 1954 to 34 inches today. A similar pattern is seen with boys clothes. The largest size for jumpers was once 36 inches. Now it is 46. School shirts are up to a 17 inch collar, compared to 14 in 1954. In shoes, some boys need adult size 10 in a width fitting of G or H, compared to an average of D-E in the 1950s.
Shopping	Daily Mail - 24th September 2004



Britain has become a nation on the move. It's been found that around 1 in 5 (22%) adults live in the town where they were born while almost 1 in 2 (48%) are more than 100 miles away. While the remaining 30% have left their home town or village, they remain within a 100 mile radius.
Odd Facts	Daily Mail - 24th September 2004



Despite a comprehensive scientific demolition of any link between the MMR vaccine and autism, take up rates are now just 80% nationally, falling 62% in some parts of London. Experts believe that London alone has 350,000 unprotected children under 16. It is estimated that an average of 15% of children and adults would be admitted to hospital if infected by measles.
Health	The Independent on Sunday - 31st October 2004



Nearly 1,000 young people aged from 10 to 20 have been punished with Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) over the past year. A total of 3,069 ASBOs have been handed out in England and Wales since they were introduced five years ago, 2,600 of these in the past year alone.
Crime	The Independent on Sunday - 31st October 2004



Household debt in the UK is set to explode in the next 10 years with devastating consequences. The debt mountain will rise from £1 trillion to £1.6 trillion over the next decade, according to Skipton Building Society.
Money	The Sentinel - 28th October 2004



Research published in the medical journal Thorax suggests a person drinking a glass of red wine each day is 13% less likely to contract lung cancer than those not drinking red wine.
Health	The Independent - 28th October 2004



Euthanasia and killings by abused partners could be downgraded to manslaughter under a wide ranging review of the law on murder announced by the Home Office.
Crime	The Independent - 28th October 2004



Just some statistics from the Department of Health and NHS regarding alcohol; It's estimated to kill 28 to 30,000 people a year in the UK and over two million worldwide; Sickness and absenteesism cost industry £641 million per year; 20% of all accidents at work are alcohol related; The cost of treating alcohol related disease for the NHS is £167 million per year; Alcohol is a major factor in 76,000 hospital cases of facial injury, 65% of suicide attempts and 23% of calls to child neglect helplines.
Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions	Joy Magazine - Novemeber 2004



The UK Abortion Act of October 1967, 6,500,000 babies have been killed.
Health	The Universe - 24th October 2004



A government survey published last year showed that 33% of young people aged 11 to 14 go to school afraid they might be bullied. Bullying might only be calling names (66% of the time), but it frequently includes physical acts of violence (49%), and verbal or written threats (27%).
Social Issues	Prophecy Today - November / December 2004



Given that 43% of teenage conceptions are aborted, the actual amount of sexual experience is much greater than the 8,000 births a year to girls aged 13 to 15 suggests. By the age of 16, some 70% of girls are still virgins, and the same for boys. Of the 30% who are not, a third, 31%, first had sex when 11 or 12, almost two thirds, 63%, when 13 or 14, and just 6% when 15.
Sex	Prophecy Today - November / December 2004



In a Daily Telegraph poll, 200 clergy were asked for their favourite film with a religious theme. The Miracle Maker beat Hollywood classics like The Greatest Story Ever Told and Ben Hur, coming in a close seconde after Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
Entertainment	Christian Herald - 23 October 2004

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