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Discuss| Showing page 3 of 28 « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next » | Last update: Monday 23rd November |
| A plasterer fears he could lose his home unless the tax office pays back £2,000 it owes him. Struggling Nigel Hampton says he can not afford to tax and MOT his work van without a tax rebate he has been due for two months. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), of which the former Inland Revenue is party told him the £2,108 payment could take another two months to process because of a backlog in the system. | |
| Money | The Sentinel- 11 August 2009 |
| Grants to universities will be linked to their performance against carbon reduction targets from 2011, education chiefs have said. Universities and higher education institutions will need to have their own carbon management plans and their performance against these will be used to assess capital allocations, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) said. It will be for the individual institutions to decide, within the national set of targets, how to reduce, measure, review and report progress on their own emissions. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel- 30 July 2009 |
| The Quakers, one of the most respected religious movements in the world, reignited debate on same-gender unions after agreeing to perform marriage ceremonies for gay couples. The body, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, already offers religious blessings to couples in religious partnerships. Last Friday, at its annual meeting at York University, the movement – long seen as a liberal organisation – opted to extend this to same sex weddings. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Church Of England- August 2009 |
| A farmer is waiting for nature to take its course after a cheeky pig swallowed a diamond from a woman’s £1,500 wedding ring. Ginger, a Kune Kune pig, clamped his jaws around the jewel after Anne Moon put her hand into his pen at Easingwold Maize Maze in North Yorkshire, owned by farmer Paul Caygill. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel- 12 August 2009 |
| The scale of the devastation wreaked on the high streets by the recession was revealed today as a report suggested the number of empty shops has doubled in some areas. Vacancies have stroke England and Wales with varying degrees of ferocity as northern regions were hit much harder than elsewhere according to researcher Local Data Company (LDC). The report indicated that the recession had hit independent stores hardest. | |
| Money | The Sentinel- 31 July 2009 |
| Ale brewed at Burslem’s Titanic Brewery has been named the best bottled beer in the country. Titanic stout has been chosen by a panel of experts at CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) as the winner of its champion bottled beer of Britain competition. It will now go on sale at 100 Travelodge bars and cafes across the country after the chain agreed to sponsor the competition. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel- 7 August 2009 |
| Booming world population levels will increase the number of migrants trying to get into the UK in the future, a campaign group has warned. Migrationwatch said huge rises in the number of people living in poorer developing countries are likely to boost migration pressures. Falling populations in East European countries will mean fewer workers wanting to come from there to Britain. | |
| World Issues | The Sentinel- 12 August 2009 |
| Cadbury has produced its first Dairy Milk bars to carry the Fair-trade mark. Cadbury agreed earlier this year to make Dairy Milk-the top-selling chocolate bar in the UK-according to Fair-trade standards. To make chocolate Fair-trade, Cadbury has worked in partnership with organisations including the Christian relief and development agency World Vision. | |
| Food and Drink | The War Cry- August 2009 |
| Shadow broadcasting minister Ed Vaizey has said that the BBC should be forced to auction off Radio 1 and that the licence fee should be frozen. In an interview with the Sunday Times, the Tory MP said that the Conservatives believe that the BBC has an unfair advantage over its commercial rivals because of its publicly funded budget. | |
| Media | The Weekly Radio Magazine- August 2009 |
| People with less money are more likely to play the National Lottery but less likely to benefit from lottery-funded projects, according to new research by theology think-tank Theos. Using a combination of polling undertaken by ComRes and analysis of existing research, Theos found that people in Britain’s lower socio-economic groups play lottery scratchcard and draw games more than those who have more money, but it says, ‘insufficient funding is being invested back into Britain’s deprived communities. | |
| Social Issues | The War Cry- August 2009 |
| Nearly 500 criminal cases in Cheshire East have ended with an apology from offender to victim, thanks to the restorative justice programme. Cheshire Constabulary says this new approach to dealing with minor crimes has been very successful, allowing victims to gain closure and enabling offenders to address their criminal actions. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 31 July 2009 |
| Ministers are facing renewed pressure to scrap Sats tests as new figures show the number of people reaching the required standard in English has fallen for the first time in the history of the exams. A fifth of primary school pupils, around 115,000 in total, failed to reach Level 4 in the subject, according to results published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). This is down one per cent from last year, from 81% to 80%, and the first time there has been a drop since 1995. | |
| Education | The Sentinel- 5 August 2009 |
| The official who ran the House of Commons fee office which administered the discredited MPs’ expenses system was awarded a pay rise worth around 7% during last year, it emerged. Official House of Commons accounts revealed director general of resources Andrew Walker’s pay rose from between £115,000 and £120,000 in 2007-8 to a range from £125,000 to £130,000 in 2008-9. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel- 4 August 2009 |
| A Catholic Labour MP has announced he will be standing down at the next election due to a combination of exhaustion and disillusionment and Parliament. Staunch Parliamentarian Andrew MacKinlay, 60, has represented the constituency of Thurrock for 17 years and admits he is now exhausted. Appalled and frustrated buy the expenses scandal, Mr. MacKinlay said he believed it masked just now exhausting the life of a conscientious MP could be. The work is unrelenting, seven days a week 52 weeks of the year. Said Mr. MacKinlay “If I won at the next election, I wouldn’t be able to cope”. “In other jobs you can have a sabbatical but not as an MP”. | |
| Politics | The Universe- August 2009 |
| Hundreds of innocent people have been branded criminals after errors by the Criminal Records Bureau more than doubled in a year. A total of 1,570 people, in the 12 months to 31 March had a criminal record wrongly attributed to them, were accused of offences more serious than those they had committed or were wrongly given a clean record. In the previous year the bureau, an agency of the Home Office, made 680 mistakes according to official figures. | |
| Crime | Salvationist- August 2009 |
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