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| Millions of young women could be 'eating themselves into an early grave' because they are not tackling their weight as effectively as men, Britain's foremost obesity expert said last night. Research suggests the 'Jamie Oliver effect' has seen men aged between 21 and 40 exercising more and eating healthily while women of the same age are still piling on the pounds. Professor Klim McPherson also warned the over-40s of both sexes are still not doing enough to deal with their weight - a fact that could have disastrous consequences for the NHS budget at a time when drastic savings are needed. | |
| Health | The Mail April 11th 2011 |
| A drug considered a last resort in the fight against osteoporosis is 17 times more effective than the standard initial treatment, an international study has found. Protelos is radically different from other therapies because it promotes the growth of fresh bone rather than just preventing deterioration. But under NHS guidelines it is a 'third-line' treatment, meaning patients with bone thinning or a fracture are not allowed it until two other approaches have been tried. In most cases, symptoms also have to worsen before they qualify. | |
| Health | Daily Mail 25th March 2011 |
| When it comes to regrets, there's nothing like a failed romance to reveal the emotional gulf between the sexes. For while it seems a man can walk away from a relationship with barely a second thought, his lover may worry for years about what she did wrong. More than twice as many women as men in a study said they had made mistakes with ex-partners - 44 per cent compared to 20 per cent. The most common disappointment was romance, with nearly one in five of those questioned saddened that a relationship hadn't worked. In second place were family problems, with 16 per cent wishing they had not argued with loved ones. | |
| Sex | Daily Mail 25th March 2011 |
| Human rights rulings by judges have led to a tripling in the number of suspected sham weddings. The courts have repeatedly weakened rules designed to prevent non-EU immigrants from marrying solely to remain in the UK. In four years, cases have risen from 282 annually to 934 - or 18 every week. And the Human Rights Act has left the Home Office with no option but to scrap all remaining legal safeguards against fake ceremonies within weeks. | |
| The Law | Daily Mail 24th March 2011 |
| Gender-bending chemicals found in non-stick pans and food packaging are linked to early menopause, scientists say. PFCs, or perfluorocarbons, are found throughout the home. They are breathed in via dust or vapour, or eaten in food, and have been linked to thyroid cancer, immune system problems and heart disease. Many researchers believe they also act as hormone disrupters in the body. They repel water and fat, and so have been used to make non-stick cookware, greaseproof food packaging and stain-resistant sprays for clothes and carpets. The company 3M stopped using the chemicals in Scotchgard in 2002 due to health concerns. DuPont, manufacturer of Teflon, has agreed to phase them out by 2015. | |
| Health | Daily Mail 24th March 2011 |
| A recent survey revealed that 71 per cent of us now think we are middle class, and that one defining characteristic is the way we drink our coffee. When people were asked what object best symbolised their 'middle-classness', the most frequent response was 'a cafetiere'. Significantly in the poll, no one owned up to being upper class, although most thought David Cameron was. | |
| Social Issues | Daily Mail 24th March 2011 |
| A violent thug serving a life sentence has won a £10,000 government payout after a delayed parole board hearing violated his human rights and robbed him of 10 months liberty. At £1,000 for every extra month he spent behind bars before being released on licence, the cash handed to Daniel Faulkner is a big increase on some previous awards in similar cases. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - April 1 2011 |
| A £180 million bursary scheme to help the poorest teenagers will replace the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) which was controversially scrapped last year. The initiative will be made up of two parts – a guaranteed payment of £1,200 per year for a small group of the “most vulnerable” teenagers, and a “discretionary fund” for schools and colleges to hand out. The announcement comes months after the coalition scrapped the EMA, a weekly payment of between £10 and £30 to help teenagers stay in education. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - March 29 2011 |
| Houses in five Stoke-on-Trent streets are among the seven cheapest in the West Midlands despite Renew North Staffordshire’s pledge to boost property prices. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel - March 30 2011 |
| Households disposable income fell for the first time in almost 30 years, official figures revealed. The figures overshadowed news that the economy shrank by less than previously thought. Consumers disposable income fell by 0.8 per cent in the final quarter of 2010, the Office for National Statistics said, providing further evidence of the squeeze on consumer spending. The first decline in spending power since 1981 came as wages failed to keep up with rising inflation at 4.4 per cent. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - March 30 2011 |
| Latest statistics from accountancy and business services firm RSM Tenon show the number of personal insolvencies in Stoke-on-Trent, including individual voluntary agreements and debt relief orders, totals 281 in the three months to September 30. That was 17 per cent lower than the same period in 2009. Nationally 11,734 people succeeded in making themselves bankrupt, with a further 2,173 forced into bankruptcy by creditors; down 24 per cent compared with the same period the year before. Gill Wrigley, Director at RSM Tenon in Festival Park, said: “the fall in the number of bankruptcy petitions in Stoke may come as a surprise to the many people affected by the downturn. Nevertheless it reflects the overall trend for a fall in people choosing to go bankrupt”. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - March 16 2011 |
| More than half the patients kept waiting at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire’s A&E department were given no explanation for the delays. The responses were given by 113 people out of 219 in a survey of the service at the unit between October and last month. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - March 16 2011 |
| A fifth of patients struggle to get through to their GP surgery by phone - and when the call is finally answered, many find there are no appointments available. Asked how simple it was to speak to a doctor on the phone, 19 per cent thought it was not at all easy or not very easy, 25 per cent thought it was very or fairly easy, 44 per cent had not tried and 12 per cent did not know. Asked about the ease of getting test results on the phone, 35 per cent said it was very or fairly easy, with 12 per cent saying it was not very or not at all easy. Overall, nine out of ten patients were satisfied with the care they received at their surgery. | |
| Health | Daily Mail March 18th 2011 |
| A disturbing number of children - some as young as 11 - are taking pornographic images of themselves and swapping them with friends via text messages or the internet, experts warn. A survey reveals that 40 per cent of 11 to 14-year-olds have used their mobile phones or computer to send pictures of themselves or received naked or topless images of friends. And more than half of youngsters who sent these images - a trend known as 'sexting' - did so knowing the pictures would be passed on to a number of recipients. And four in ten of the 11,000 children surveyed thought it was 'appropriate' to circulate pictures of topless girls in their school. Sexting is a criminal offence - for those of any age - under the Child Trafficking And Pornography Act. | |
| Young People | Daily Mail March 18th 2011 |
| Exam grades have been artificially inflated and billions of pounds in increased spending on education wasted, according to a damning international report. The report, from the highly respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, concludes that pupils' actual performance remains 'static' and 'uneven’. The share of A-levels awarded at grade A has risen continuously over the past 18 years and trebled since 1980, it says, but independent surveys of students' cognitive skills 'do not support this development'. Most damagingly, the report concludes that despite Labour's doubling of spending on education since 2000, children's success remains 'strongly related to parents' income and background'. | |
| Education | Daily Mail March 17th 2011 |
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