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| Air pollution could shorten a child’s life by up to seven months, a new study suggests. An eight-year old child born in 2011 may die between two to seven months early if exposed over their lifetime to projected future pollution concentrations, King’s College London researchers studying Birmingham have found. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, 08 July 2019 |
| Experts have warned a “childhood crisis” is on the way as youngsters face unparalleled social pressures amid Government cuts to children’s services. A survey of 5,000 youngsters and adults carried out by leading charity Action for Children and YouGov found that two thirds of parents and grandparents felt childhoods were getting worse, and a third of children agreed. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, 09 July 2019 |
| Amazon’s Alexa is set to answer people’s health queries by searching the official NHS website. A new partnership with the NHS means Alexa will now give answers based on information from the health service website, which has been verified by health professionals. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, 10 July 2019 |
| A failure to tackle climate change will bring great “social unrest” and increased pressure from immigration, Sir David Attenborough has warned a Parliament committee as part of its inquiry into international climate change targets. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel, 10 July 2019 |
| Thousands of prisoners are being released without proper checks on what danger they pose to the public, a watchdog has suggested. Chief inspector of prisons Peter Clarke hit out at the “poor response” to the problem in his annual report. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, 11 July 2019 |
| Drinking less than one can of sugary drink or 100% fruit juice per day has been linked to an increased risk of cancer, research in France suggests. Experts reported that people consuming just under 200ml on average of a sugar-sweetened drink or fruit juice each day had an 18% increased risk of all types of cancer. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, 11 July 2019 |
| A daily pill could offer an alternative life-extending treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer, new research suggests. Enzalutamide, which works by blocking the effect of testosterone on prostate cancer cells, is already available on the NHS for those no longer responding to hormone injections. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, 3 June 2019 |
| Fewer people in the UK are donating money to charity, but people who do donate are giving larger amounts – the largest to religious causes, the latest UK Giving study has found. The annual report from the Charities Aid Foundation, published this week, is based on more than 12,000 responses to an online survey, and interviews conducted monthly over a year. | |
| Money | Church Times, May 2019 |
| Supervised tests of a potential autonomous car service built by a UK-based artificial intelligence firm have begun in two London boroughs. FiveAI has started testing five self-driving cars in Bromley and Croydon in its latest effort to roll out an autonomous, car-sharing service in London. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel, 2 April 2019 |
| Last year was the worst year since records began for the number of children killed or injured in armed conflict, the United Nations has revealed: 12,000 children were maimed or killed in 20 different conflicts around the world. | |
| Disasters/War | Church Times, 16 August 2019 |
| One person is diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes every three minutes in England and Wales, new figures suggest. A total of 202,665 people received a diagnosis in the two countries in 2017, which is equivalent to 23 people every hour. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, 2 April 2019 |
| The charity NSPCC have reported a one fifth increase in reports of racially motivated abuse by children and young people since 2015. In 2015 young people across the UK voted for racism and religious discrimination as one of the top five issues facing young people in the annual Make Your Mark ballot. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work, July 2019 |
| Work-Life balance is one of the most important aspects of a job for candidates, ahead of career opportunities and perks, a study has suggested. Jobs site Glassdoor said a survey of 2,000 adults showed the importance of firms offering staff a decent balance between work and home lives. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel, 31 May 2019 |
| One person in Britain generates as much carbon dioxide annually as 212 citizens of Burundi, Central Africa, a report published on Tuesday by Christian Aid says. Burundi, with a population of about 12 million, has the lowest annual per capita emissions of carbon dioxide in the world. | |
| Environment | Church Times, 9 August 2019 |
| Sales of sparkling wine in the UK have fallen for the first time in five years, figures show. Three million fewer bottles were sold last year, with sales dropping from 217 million bottles in 2017 to 214 million in 2018, according to UHY Hacker Young. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Sentinel, 1 April 2019 |
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