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| Four disabled adults have won a landmark legal challenge after a court ruled council plans to slash its adult social care budget were unlawful. High Court Judge Mr Justice Walker passed an interim judgement that Birmingham City Council’s budget failed to comply with Section 49a of the Disability Discrimination Act, requiring the needs of disabled people to be considered. The authority was proposing to cut care for disabled adults whose needs had not been assessed as “critical”. | |
| Money | The Sentinel April 21, 2011 |
| Kanal Hayat (formerly ECTV) is the only 24/7 Christian satellite television service broadcasting in Turkish and other Turkic languages. During 2010, over 200,000 Turks responded to Kanal Hayat (KH) in some way. There were hundreds of phone calls, thousands of texts and emails. Those who contact the station know that they might face problems from their families or communities. 180,000 people visited the accompanying website and 26,000 full programmes were downloaded, perhaps to watch privately and repeatedly. Over 90% of those who respond are Muslims, many of whom want to know more about Jesus Christ. Most are men (aged up to 40), though more programmes aimed at women are steadily changing that balance. The response represents one in every 266 adults in Turkey or, for example, 90 in a town with 25,000. There are many towns in Turkey of this size with no other Christian witness. | |
| World Issues | Evangelicals Now May 2011 |
| In 2010/11 437 complaints were made against Staffordshire Police – the equivalent of 117 for every 1,000 officers and staff members. This is up slightly from 2009/10 when 422 complaints were lodged against the force. 156 of the complaints were against officers working in Stoke-on-Trent division, while 61 related to North Staffordshire. The city-based complaints included 43 for neglect, 46 for assault and 35 for not being civil. In North Staffordshire there were 20 complaints for neglect, 19 for assault and 13 for a lack of civility. It is not known how many complaints were upheld. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel April 28, 2011 |
| The European Court of Human rights should avoid intervening in asylum and immigration cases, the Council of Europe said. The Strasbourg-based court should not act as an immigration appeals tribunal and should only intervene “in the most exceptional circumstances”, the council added. Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said the court should “exercise restraint when interfering in asylum decisions.” | |
| Politics | The Sentinel April 28, 2011 |
| Fears over the strength of Britain’s economic recovery were fuelled after figures showed only a tepid turnaround from the snow-bound end to 2010. Gross domestic product, a broad measure for the total economy, grew by 0.5 per cent between January and March, reversing a decline of 0.5 per cent in the final quarter of 2010, the office for National Statistics (ONS) said. But while the UK escaped a double-dip recession, the ONS warned underlying growth was broadly flat. | |
| Money | The Sentinel April 28, 2011 |
| A north Staffordshire specialist is behind new guidelines urging GPs throughout Britain to carry out blood tests on women suspected of having ovarian cancer. The move is aimed at improving survival rates for the disease dubbed the “silent killer” with two-thirds of the 6,800 sufferers diagnosed every year failing to live longer than five years. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 28, 2011 |
| Almost 1,000 released prisoners, including 30 killers and rapists, who should have been sent back to jail are at large, figures showed yesterday. More than a third of the 954 criminals, who have had their licences revoked either because they returned to crime or breached their conditions, have been on the run for more than five years. In all, 20 murderers and nine rapists who should be jailed were free at the end of last month. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel April 29, 2011 |
| More than one in 10 head teachers has been attacked by a parent of a pupil at their school, according to figures released today. School leaders have been punched, kicked, spat on, head-butted, bitten, attacked with chairs and tables and sexually assaulted, the National Association of Head Teachers said. In a survey, almost 75 per cent of those quizzed said they had suffered verbal abuse or threats from a parent in the last five years. Some 20 percent have been victimised on internet sites. | |
| Education | The Sentinel April 30, 2011 |
| Police in Staffordshire have used Taser Stun Guns 165 times since the weapons were introduced six years ago. But Latest Home Office figures show the Tasers have actually been fired just 27 times between April 22, 2004, and March 31, 2010. A Staffordshire Police Spokesman said: “Staffordshire Police always endeavour to resolve violent situations and those involving armed people safely and without force. However, when that fails, Tasers give us an option to bring serious incidents to a swift and safe conclusion. The devices are a less-lethal alternative to conventional police firearms.” Nationally in England and Wales Tasers have been used 8,599 times between April 2004 and March 2010. And in that period the weapons were fired 2,185 times. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel April 26, 2011 |
| A pill made from the leaves of the olive tree could be a powerful weapon in the fight against heart disease, scientists say. According to research, the olive pill is as effective as some prescription medicines at reducing high blood pressure. And it also appears to lower levels of harmful blood fats, called triglycerides, known to raise the risk of heart attacks and strokes. In a study, patients who took the olive leaf pill for eight weeks saw a significant decline in blood pressure readings and triglyceride levels. | |
| Health | The Mail April 16th 2011 |
| Pupils who have sexually assaulted teachers, threatened other children with knives, and attacked police officers have been allowed back into the classroom, a shocking dossier reveals. In most cases, exclusion orders were lifted by their head teachers, school governing bodies or independent appeals panels. In a handful of schools, the child was not even removed in the first place. The dossier on the 16 'unteachable' youngsters was compiled by teachers who warned that their authority is being undermined by allowing such children to return to school. In all the cases, ballots for industrial action were launched last year by members of the NASUWT and the National Union of Teachers in an effort to force schools to protect staff from troublemakers. | |
| Education | The Mail April 16th 2011 |
| A third of young people don’t think that buying something on a credit card counts as spending money, according to a survey carried out by Barclays. The bank is about to launch a Money Skills programme for 16-24 year-olds after the survey revealed that just 4% could recall receiving financial advice or guidance on how to manage their money from their school or college. One third admitted to regularly running out of money and the same number admitted to using the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ regularly. Most – 90% - rely on their parents and/or friends for financial advice. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, May 2011 |
| 30 years of research has showed that ‘quality of life’ for those on inadequate incomes is most easily expressed by dealing with people’s material needs. Meanwhile, studies in the US show that people on adequate incomes are made most happy when helping others. | |
| Social Issues | Third Way, May 2011 |
| Pupils are being taught about euthanasia with a video featuring a notorious assisted suicide campaigner nicknamed Dr Death. Dr Philip Nitschke is shown demonstrating his machine that delivers lethal injections in the film, which is already being shown to pupils as young as 14 across the country. There is also footage of him giving workshops on assisted suicide methods, which church leaders have criticised as an 'invitation to commit suicide'. | |
| Education | The Mail April 16th 2011 |
| An extensive piece of research into obesity from Northwestern University in Illinois tracked 2,433 men and women in the USA for 18 years, looking at their change in weight. Their main finding was a striking correlation between regular worship and obesity. After adjusting for factors such as age, sex, education and income, they found that people are 50% more likely to be obese by middle age if they attend church weekly than if they don’t go at all. | |
| Odd Facts | Third Way, May 2011 |
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