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| The Beatles’ song Across The Universe will be the first ever to be beamed directly into space next week, Nasa said. Sir Paul McCartney said it was an “amazing” achievement and John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono called it the “beginning of a new age”. The song will be aimed at the North Star, 431 light years away from the Earth. | |
| Space | The Sentinel – 1st February 2008 |
| Britain’s drinking water is under threat from medicines and cosmetics flushed down the drains of millions of households, a report claimed today. The Royal society of Chemistry (RSC) report claimed today. The Royal Society off Chemistry (RSC) report warns that treatment works are unable to remove all these substances, leaving some of them to contaminate water supplies. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel - December 10th 2007 |
| The Governments flagship Anti-social Behaviour Orders are creating a culture that encourages children into crime, a think tank warned today. The measures can become a “self-fulfilling prophecy” of offending and should not be applied to under 12’s, according to the institute for public policy research (ippr). | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - December 10th 2007 |
| Former soldiers should be encouraged to retrain as teachers, bringing a taste of military discipline to tough inner-city schools, a leading think-tank said today. A report by the centre-right Centre for Policy Studies called on the Government to take up the example of the Troops to Teachers programme in the United States where it had proved very successful. It said that the T3 scheme – as it is known in the US – had provided worthwhile careers for ex-servicemen and women while bringing the benefits of their military training to schools which were violent and unsafe. The proposal was strongly supported by the former Chief of Defence Staff, Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank. | |
| The Sentinel - February 15th 2008 | |
| More than two in five A-roads in the UK are inadequate, according to a new star-rating system. 40 per cent of the A-roads are no better than two Star, according to a report from the IAM trust, formerly the institute of advanced motorists. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel - December 3rd 2007 |
| Low-income families are to get £18 million of government cash to spend on home safety measures to help stop young children being injured. The three-year project was announced today by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls who said it would protect vulnerable youngsters. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – December 3rd 2007 |
| Obesity is one of the “greatest threats” to women of childbearing age in the UK, experts warned today. A new report showed that more than half of women who die in pregnancy or shortly after birth are overweight or obese. They are putting themselves and their babies at risk of complications that could lead to death, it warned. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - December 4th 2007 |
| Britain is becoming a nation of “bump and run” drivers, with almost 10 per cent of motorists admitting to crashing into parked cars and speeding away. Nearly half of offenders felt guilty but 20 per cent did not give it a second thought, a survey by car insurance from Direct Line found. Some of the offenders were more worried about being seen by other drivers or captured on camera than concerned about the damage they caused. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - December 7th 2007 |
| Real fur is thought to be widely sold by mistake in UK stores, the RSPCA warned today. Many shoppers accidentally buy fur assuming it is fake due to low prices and poor labelling, the charity said. The RSPCA’s warnings come after it bought items made with fur from TK Maxx and the Edinburgh Woollen Mill. | |
| Shopping | The Sentinel - December 7th 2007 |
| The Cost of raising a child has soared by a third in the past five years to reach more than £186,000 research has shown. It costs an average of £186,032 to raise a child to the age of 21, £8,859 a year, £738 a month or £24.30 a day, according to friendly society Liverpool Victoria. The group found that the expenses associated with having children in creased by 33 per cent since 2003. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - December 7th 2007 |
| Two British technology firms have teamed up to launch what is being billed as the world’s first platform-agnostic radio, bringing together FM, DAB and internet radio via wi-fi. The Blik Radio station has been jointly produced by Frontier Silicon and Revo, and is the first DAB radio capable of receiving the new DAB+ standard without the need for additional software. | |
| Media | The Weekly Radio Magazine - December 19th – 25th 2007 |
| Young girls are being lured into prostitution by teenage boys who charm them, offer them gifts and gain their trust, the Home Officer said today. The Home Office is funding a video produced with the UK Internal Trafficking Group which will got to schools and youth groups to warn young people of risk of so-called “internal trafficking”. It is also working with other agencies to find out the scale of the problem. | |
| Sex | The Sentinel - December 5th 2007 |
| The government is considering making abortions available at GP practices. The department of health confirmed it was looking at providing women with early stage abortions using drugs in “non – traditional settings” including doctors’ surgeries. Although no decision has yet been made, two pilot studies are being carried out and an evaluation will be complete early next year. In October, an influential group of MPs issued a report calling for women to be given easier access to abortions. The Science and Technology committee, which found no justification for lowering the current 24-week legal limit, said women were experiencing unnecessary delays. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - December 5th 2007 |
| Stroke patients will get quicker access to like-saving treatment under a 10 year strategy announced today. Health secretary Alan Johnson will unveil new measures aimed at cutting the number of people who die or suffer disability following a stroke. Campaigners said it was help "hundreds and thousands of stoke survivors have been crying out for". | |
| Health | The Sentinel - December 5th 2007 |
| More than a fifth of 16-24 year olds have admitted using cocaine at least once a month, a European Union study has revealed. Almost 40% of school pupils have been offered drugs at some time. This compares with 14% in 2004-2005 and 17% in 2003-2004. Mary Brett, of campaign group Europe Against Drugs, said, "Older teens are turning to cocaine instead of cannabis. Young people need proper drug education in schools that is about prevention." | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork - January 8th 2008 |
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