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| Swindon has become the first town in the UK to do away with fixed-point speed cameras. The cabinet of the Tory-run council voted unanimously in favour of withdrawing from the Wiltshire And Swindon Safety Camera Partnership. It came after a change to the way fixed-point cameras are funded. Councillors objected to central Government receiving the cash from fines while Swindon council had to pay for the upkeep of the cameras. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel - 23rd October 2008 |
| A drug used to treat leukaemia can also combat the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis. Research published in the New England Journal Of Medicine will bring fresh hope to many of the UK’s 100,000 MS sufferers. Led by researchers from the University Of Cambridge, the study found alemtuzumab can stop MS advancing in its early stages. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 23rd October 2008 |
| Lorries are to be banned from a county’s country lanes in a bid to end the chaos caused by wayward satellite navigation units. Gloucestershire County Council is banning HGVs from an area of 150 square miles. It comes after a number of cases where lorries were diverted down routes which are too tight for trucks. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel - 24th October 2008 |
| A “genetic MOT” which would allow parents using IVF treatment to screen embryos for a range of genetic diseases could be available as early as 2009. The £1,500 test aims to help people at risk of passing on genetic defects, The Times reported. It is believed to be able to detect almost any known genetic disease. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 24th October 2008 |
| Schoolchildren are to be given lessons in managing their money under a new Government initiative. The £11.5 million programme will see youngsters taught about dealing with financial matters from when they start school through to university, or when they begin working. The My Money Initiative will also help parents to answer their child’s financial questions. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - 22nd October 2008 |
| The Salvation Army has signed an exclusive £1 million deal with Universal Music – the world’s leading record company and musical home of the likes of Duffy, The Killers, Take That and Amy Winehouse – for a recording by the International Staff Band. | |
| Salvationist - 11th October 2008 | |
| The Rev. Tim Hastie-Smith, chairman of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), which represents 250 independent schools across the country, has criticised the removal of God from the British education system and the rise of a consumerist culture that eschews personal responsibility. Speaking at the HMC’s annual gathering in London Mr Hastie-Smith, Head of Dean Close School, Cheltenham, lamented that a generation ‘nurtured on nannying government’ was incapable of taking responsibility and blamed others for it’s own short comings. | |
| Education | Salvationist - 11th October 2008 |
| The number of teenagers treated for drug addiction has risen by 30 per cent in two years. In England last year 202,000 people had therapy for drug use. Of the 69,600 discharged from therapy only 7, 300 were drug free. Ten per cent were in their teens, the national Treatment Agency said. The Times. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Salvationist - 11th October 2008 |
| Swrewsbury Prison was today named as the most overcrowded in the country. Director of the Prison Reform Trust (PRT), Juliet Lyon, said the jail has 178 places in use but holds 326 inmates-which means it is running at an overcrowding rate of 183 per cent. The prison houses many offenders jailed by courts in North Staffordshire. The PRT said almost two-thirds of prisons are officially overcrowded, with the system holding 10,000 more offenders than it was designed to handle. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - August 7 2008 |
| The Government is renewing its efforts to ensure children up to the age of 18 receive the MMR jab. The department of health is making extra doses of the vaccine available and pledging more cash to help NHS trusts vaccinate young youngsters in their area. Uptake rates of the jab vary across England, but are particularly low in London. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 7 2008 |
| More than £15 billion has been wasted on Regional Development Agencies in England, a report claims. The Taxpayers’ Alliance says the quangoes have contributed nothing since they were established in 1999 but have cost almost £600 per household. Abolishing the agencies would save enough money to cut 4p off small firms’ corporation tax, it was claimed. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - August 8th 2008 |
| A campaign to scrap the historic requirement on MPs to swear allegiance to the monarch has been described by a Conservative peer as an attack on the state. Former Tory chairman Lord Tebbit condemned MPs who want to see an alternative oath allowing them to pledge to serve their constituents rather than the queen. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - August 8th 2008 |
| Companies in England and Wales are making illegal criminal records checks on staff applying for jobs such as gardeners or bricklayers, it was reported today. Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks are used by firms and charities to identify people who are not suitable to work with children or vulnerable adults. Requests by employers have been made to the CRB for jobs such as train drivers or bricklayers, which means employers are learning about spent convictions that should not be disclosed. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - August 8th 2008 |
| Most motorists would still drive if petrol prices soared, a survey says. And as many as 17 per cent of drivers would be prepared to pay more than £2 a litre at the pumps in order to stay on the road, according to car insurance company Esure. Almost half (47 per cent) said they would never consider ditching their car for public transport. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - August 8th 2008 |
| An ‘Indianised’ version of the Bible, complete with images of Joseph in a loincloth and turban and Mary in a sari, has sold 30,000 copies in its first week in Mumbai alone. The New Community Bible is written in simplified English, features texts from Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa and quotes Hindu texts such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata… The new Bible is the result of 18 years’ work by a team of mostly Indian theologians and Bible scholars. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Salvationist - August 9th 2008 |
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