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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
According to a new survey, Bournemouth on the south coast has the happiest population of any UK town. More than four in five residents say they are happy.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 9th March 2007
 
16.2% of British children live below the poverty line.

Social IssuesYouthwork – April 2007
 
Nightclub doormen are donning hi tech headcams to help curb trouble. Security staff at Liquid, on Brunswick Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent are now using the gadgets to film clubbers in and around the premises.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 29th January 2007
 
Vulnerable people could be missing on benefits because leaflets explaining their rights are too difficult to understand. Information from the Department of Work and Pensions require a reading age above the national average to be understood.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 23rd January 2007
 
Twelve lions, 14 tigers and 50 leopards are being kept by licensed private owners, researchers studying big cats in Britain say. The 154 assorted non domestic cats are owned privately, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 27th December 2006
 
The number of people living on their own is set to rise by 53% over the next 20 years. Research found that living loners will total 9.9 million by 2026 as more and more people opt for a solitary home life. The figure is up from about 6.6 million one person households in 2003.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 15th December 2006
 
Builders bums came top in a list of annoying habits in the construction trade. A survey of 500 householders showed that letting jeans or trousers slip down to expose bits of the body which really should stay private was the biggest complaint.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 5th December 2006
 
It’s not a bad pint of beer or a losing football team that is most likely to make a man blow his top but other peoples bad manners. More than two thirds of men (68%) said rude people were to blame for their aggressive outbursts.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 28th November 2006
 
The in-laws are the most unwelcome house guests according to a new survey.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 17th October 2006
 
In a nationwide survey, more than 16% of sixth through 10th graders said they had been bullied at least occasionally in the current term.

Social IssuesThe Church of England Newspaper – 6th October 2006
 
One in five Britons would prefer to have been born French, according to a new report.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 9th October 2006
 
Confirming what many men have longed believed, a survey has found women are grumpier than men in the morning. They also stay in a bad mood for longer. The survey found 24% of men say they never wake up grumpy, as opposed to only 14% of women.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 26th October 2006
 
The UK is becoming a surveillance society where technology is used to track people’s lives a new report states.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 2nd November 2006
 
Britain’s youths are some of the worst behaved in Europe. Studies show British 15 year olds are drunk more often, and involved in more fights compared with their counterparts in Germany, France and Italy.

Social IssuesThe Sentinel – 2nd November 2006
 
10,000 Children call ChildLine every day.

Social IssuesSword – November / December 2006
 
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