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| Young drivers could be safer behind the wheel if parents sit in on their lessons, according to a £500,000 study. Staffordshire County Council and Keele University looked at how parents can help their children as they learn to drive. The study targeted 17 to 24-year-old drivers. Figures show more than 3,000 motorists aged under 25 are killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads each year. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel, Thursday April 29, 2010 |
| Thirteen expectant mothers were turned away from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS) last year because its maternity unit was full. The mothers, all in labour, had to travel to either Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Stafford General Hospital, or Macclesfield. The statistics have been released in response to a Freedom of Information request sent by the Conservative Party to hospitals throughout the country. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, Monday April 26, 2010 |
| Almost two-thirds of Europeans think Christian values are still relevant to contemporary life and are ready to acknowledge the Church’s efforts to promote them, according to a survey for France’s Catholic La Croix daily. “Whether rooted in Christianity or not, Europeans recognise a privileged place for this religion in its Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox forms,” the weekly commented. “Yet while two-thirds think Christianity’s message is still up to date, this isn’t the case for the other third. So Christianity remains an element marking the religious culture of the Old Continent, but no longer claims exclusivity.” | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Universe, Sunday April 25, 2010 |
| The creation of embryos with three genetic parents – hailed by scientists at Newcastle University as “a very exciting development with immense potential” – is ruthless exploitation of human life and makes misleading claims, according to a leading ethicist. Although it has been promoted as a process which gives women with genetic problems the chance to have a child free of inherited disease, it is not ethical, has no guarantee of success and is quite possibly being carried out on unaffected embryos, according to Josephine Quintavalle. “This is ruthless genetic manipulation of human life in a convoluted and outrageous process,” she said. | |
| Science | The Universe, Sunday April 25, 2010 |
| Reforms to our legal system are necessary to protect Christians from persecution, contend church leaders including the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey. Lord Carey is urging the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, and other senior judges to stand down from future Court of Appeal hearings involving cases of religious discrimination because of a perceived bias by judges against Christianity. | |
| The Law | Salvationist, 24 April 2010 |
| The number of first-time buyers in the UK remained at near 20-year lows over the past 12 months and the latest stamp duty boost is unlikely to help them get on the property ladder, according to research today. GfK’s Financial Research Survey suggests 347,000 people took out a mortgage for the first time in the year to February 2010. This is up slightly on the 331,374 seen the year before, which marked the first reading below 350,000 since the survey began in 1993. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel, Wednesday April 21, 2010 |
| Placing registered organ donors on a transplant priority list and helping to pay their families’ funeral expenses are two radical ideas floated in a report. Both are suggested in ways to encourage organ and tissue donation in a consultation paper. The first would mean offering donors a place at the head of the queue should they need a new organ. The second would involve contributing to funeral expenses of a dead donor’s relatives. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, Tuesday April 20, 2010 |
| Employers are being urged to make themselves aware about new employee sickness legislation Rules governing the so-called ‘fit notes’ – designed to replace sick notes – came into force on April 6. It means that instead of giving patients a sick note saying they are too ill to work, doctors will be asked to provide advice on whether a person may be fit for work with some help and support, and what employers can do to assist. The legislation aims to cut the cost of sick leave for employers and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates it will benefit the economy by around £240 million over the next 10 years. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel, Monday April 19, 2010 |
| The housing market has shown further signs of a spring revival as asking prices rose by 2.6 per cent over the past month, according to new figures. New figures show that the average price of a UK property rose to £235,512 between March 7 and April 10, in a marked improvement on the 0.1 per cent lift seen the month before. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel, Monday April 19, 2010 |
| Almost a tenth of children have a part-time job to earn extra money. Their average weekly wage is £17.93, totalling almost £1,000 a year. | |
| Young People | The War Cry, 17 April 2010 |
| People who are looking to work from home are the latest targets of scammers, according to research from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The findings show that the scammers attempt to swindle money by offering profitable business opportunities or start-up advice. According to the survey, in the past 12 months 17 per cent of the adult population has been targeted, and the number of incidents is rising. | |
| Work/Employment | The War Cry, 17 April 2010 |
| Writing in the Daily Mail after nurse Shirley Chapman was banned from wearing her crucifix at work, Dr Taj Hargey, Imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation, argued: ‘I am Muslim. But even as a non-Christian, I can see all too clearly the shameful way in which Britain’s national faith is being eroded … With a typically bureaucratic mix of arrogance and authoritarianism, the Devon and Exeter Trust has claimed that the ban is not an attack on Christianity because wearing a crucifix is not an essential requirement of the faith. But who appointed these quangocrats to pronounce on matters of religious doctrine?’ | |
| Religious Persecution | The War Cry, 17 April 2010 |
| A Christian nurse who was moved to a desk job after refusing to remove her crucifix has lost a claim for discrimination. Shirley Chaplin, aged 54, took the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust Hospital to an employment tribunal, claiming that taking off a necklace bearing a crucifix would “violate her faith”. The trust said the rule was designed to prevent patients grabbing necklaces. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Sentinel, Wednesday April 7, 2010 |
| A pensions group has called on the Government to reform the state pension to lift two million people out of means-testing. The National Association of Pension Funds called for the basic state pension and the second state pension to be combined into a new Foundation Pension. It said this would be worth £8,000 a year. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, Monday March 29, 2010 |
| A supermarket chain is to sell fertility drugs without profit, claiming it will save patients hundreds of thousands of pounds per treatment. Asda said the decision was part of a move to establish itself as the most competitive pharmacy in the UK. Asda Pharmacy will charge £1,171.41 for drugs to accompany one IVF cycle, saving up to £820 it claimed. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, Wednesday March 3, 2010 |
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