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| The second attempt to buy supermarket Sainsbury's in six months collapsed today. Qatari-backed investment vehicle Delta Two - the retailer's largest shareholder - said it was "not in the best interests" of its stakeholders to proceed with its £10.6 billion proposal. This comes after a previous takeover approach foundered earlier this year. | |
| Shopping | The Sentinal - November 2007 |
| Homeowners could see the value of thier property drop over the next few years with a 20% chance of a fall in prices by 2010. Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said there is a one in five chance that house prices will fall between now and 2010. There is a one in three chance that values will be lower in real terms, once inflation had been factored in. | |
| Housing | The Sentinal - November 2007 |
| Nine out of ten believers prefer Christian banking. That's the finding of new research which found practising Christians said they were not happy with the ethics of high street banks and almost two out of three said they like the idea of a faith-based alternative. "Nine out of ten respondents told us that they thought a Christian bank would be much more ethical that high street alternatives" said Kingdom Bank Chief executive Peter Jessop. | |
| Money | The Way - November 2007 |
| The Beijing Olympics organising committee has denied published reports that athletes will be banned from bringing bibles with them into the olympic village. Li Zhanjun, the director of the Bejing Olympics media centre stated the Bible ban was an "international distortion of the truth". However, Chinese emigre organisations report the government has issued instructions to the security forces to ensure that religious and poitical dissent is quashed before the start of next summer's games. | |
| World Issues | Church Of England newspaper - November 2007 |
| Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo, is set to run out of water, the British relief agency tearfund reports. Four out of the five resevoirs that supply the city of 1.5 million have run dry, and the government has refused to come to the people's aid unless the opposition led Bulawayo city council turns over the city's water department to the control of the Zimbabwe National water authority. 'Churches in Blawayo' an interfaith alliance, has stepped in with the support of the city by setting up water tanks at churches to supply patable water fot the city's residents: a solution that observers see as too little too late. | |
| World Issues | Church Of England newspaper - November 2007 |
| Six US television evangelists are under investigation by a US senate commitee for allagedly abusing thier tax-exempt status to fund lavish lifestyles that include mansions, jets, Rolls Royces and £12,000 toilet seats. Senator Grassley said "I don't want to conclude that there's a problem, but i have an obligation to donors and the taxpayers to fing out more. People who donated should have thier money spent as intended and in adherance to the tax code" | |
| Church | Church Of England newspaper - November 2007 |
| The number of women ordinands has outnumbered men for the first time ever in the Church Of England, new statisticts have revealed. According to official figures, there were 478 new clergy ordained in 2006, down from 505 new ordinands in 2005, but up from 469 in 2004. But for the first time ever more women (244) were ordained than men (234) in 2006, although the majority of these women were ordained to non-stipendiary ministry. | |
| Church | Church Of England newspaper - November 2007 |
| Babies born by caesarean section are 20% more likely to become insulin dependant diabetics in childhood, say researchers. Although the reason for the link is not clear, scientists believe exposure to hospital bacteria may be involved. Childhood infections, along with genetics, are already known to play an important role in the development of type 1 diabetes. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 26th |
| A Christian development agency is calling for Western nations to repay thier "Carbon debt to the developing world" to help poorer countries tackle global warming. In a new report by Christian Aid, the annual bill for developed countries to help emerging nations cut greenhouse gasses and focus on sustainable development would run into billions of pounds. It estimates that the cost for the UK could come to at least £25 billion, while the EU would have to pay £164 billion and the US £198 billion, having used an economic framework by American climate think tank EcoEquity to reach these figures. | |
| World Issues | Church Of England newspaper - November 2007 |
| Female migraine sufferers are at a significantly lower risk of breast cancer, a study published today suggests. Research has shown that women with a history of the severe, recurrent headaches have a 30 per cent lower risk of breast cancer compared to women who do not suffer such attacks. The study, by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, looked at more than 3,000 women from the region. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 6th November 2008 |
| "I can't name names. Probably the ones that you'd most expect. Then again, the country artists and the Christian artists definitely have backstage parties, too" Dave Grohl, the singer of the Foo Fighters, on which bands are the most Wanton. | |
| What famous people say | Third way - December 2007 |
| Four in ten women would rather go shopping than have sex, researchers say. And half of those who have been married for 20 years or more would happily get by without any at all. The statistics may sound like an insult to their husbands. But there is some good news for men – 72 per cent of wives still fancy their partners, giving them seven out of ten or higher on the scale of sexual attractiveness. Nor does the figure diminish with age. More than half of those who have been married for 20 years agree. | |
| Sex | DAILY MAIL - November 2007 |
| New car sales fell last month by the biggest year on year margin for almost 18 years, official figures out today were expected to show. New registrations in October 2008 dipped by as much as 25 per cent compared with October 2007, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders was expected to announce. The figures would be the worst since June 1991 when sales slumped by more than 31 per cent compared with June 1990. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - 6th November 2008 |
| "I was brought up as a Catholic in a small village where the priest was the boss. My dad remembers me going to church with my mother, praying to God to make us win games. I got the bible out when we were 1-0 down, saying "Jesus Christ, let us win this game." I still do the same thing, but without the book now." The Arsenal head coach Arsene Wenger. | |
| What famous people say | Third way - December 2007 |
| New mothers who do not get enough sleep are less likely to get their figures back quickly, researchers say. They have discovered a crucial link between sleep deprivation and the inability to lose those extra pounds once the baby has arrived. An extra two hours a night can make a major difference, say the researchers, who suggest lack of sleep triggers hormonal changes which make women hungrier. | |
| Family | DAILY MAIL - November 2007 |
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