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| Children’s rights campaigners said Government ministers should be ashamed, after a bid to ban smacking failed in the House of Commons without a vote. Ministers were expected to face a backbench rebellion when the Children and Young Persons Bill was considered in the Commons yesterday evening. Procedural constraints meant the issue of smacking was not even debated on the floor of the Commons during the report stage of the Bill. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - 9th October 2008 |
| Britain’s six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government backed drive to clamp down on music and films. Around 6.5 million Britons have downloaded files illegally over the past year and estimates suggest the practice will cost the music industry up to £1 billion over the next five years. The fightback against online piracy will begin with letters to thousands of the most prolific downloaders to inform them that their activity has been detected and is being monitored. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - July 24th 2008 |
| Terry Wogan's listener numbers have dropped but his breakfast show remains the most popular in the country. Figures released by industry body Rajar, showed Radio 2’s Wake Up With Wogan notched up 7.75 million listeners each week this quarter – down on the previous record 8.1 million. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - July 24th 2008 |
| BP is expected to post a mammoth $7.6 billion (£3.8 billion) in second-quarter profits today as the corporate giant is buoyed by surging oil prices. The profits – 38 per cent ahead of the same period last year and equivalent to more than £1.7 million an hour- follow recent protests from hauliers over soaring costs as millions of motorists feel the forecourt pain. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - July 29th 2008 |
| The Mothership which will launch the first space tourists into the atmosphere was unveiled by Sir Richard Branson in California. WhiteKnightTwo (WK2), the carrier aircraft which will be used to launch SpaceShipTwo into orbit, “will allow thousands of people to realise their dreams” and “act as a catalyst to transform human access to space”. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel - July 29th 2008 |
| Firecrews are today hoping to venture inside the burned-out skeleton of a 104 year old year old pier to search for the cause of the blaze. The Grand Pier, at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, was destroyed yesterday morning in a fire thought to have started in the kitchens. Owner Kerry Michael, aged 49, had spent £1 million revamping the attraction he bought in February. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel - July 29th 2008 |
| Innocent people should have their profiles deleted from the National DNA Database, says an inquiry funded by the Government. Even guilty people who have served their time should eventually have their DNA records erased because retaining the profile “continues to criminalise them”, the study concluded. The “citizen’s inquiry” overseen by the Human Genetics Commission urged ministers to take control of the database away from the police and the Home Office, by setting up an independent body to own and control the information. It said some of the panel members believed that “past actions and hidden agendas have shown that the Government cannot be trusted”. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel - July 30th 2008 |
| A new drug could prove at least twice as effective in treating Alzheimer’s disease as current medicines, research has showed. The drug, Rember, slows progression of the disease by as much as 81 per cent, a British led study found. Experts hailed the research as a major development in the fight against Alzheimer’s, which affects around 350,000 people in the UK. The study was done by Professor Claude Wischik and colleagues at the University of Aberdeen. Prof Wischik said: “This is the most significant development in the treatment of the tangles since Alzheimer discovered them in 1907.” The drug could be available by 2012 if a final trial is successful. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 30th 2008 |
| British Gas parent Centrica was expected to post half-year profits of around £880 million today as millions of its customers reel from a record high in gas bills. The UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier, which has 15.9 million customers, has been forced to pass on soaring wholesale gas prices after first raising bills in January. Yesterday, the group upped gas bills by a mammoth 35 per cent, with electricity prices up 9 per cent, This takes annual dual fuel payments to £1,317. £404 above the beginning of the year. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - July 31st 2008 |
| Online companies like YouTube were urged by MPs today to do more to protect children from the “dark side” of the internet. The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee said it was “unimpressed” that the videosharing website – owned by internet giant Google – made no attempt to vet clips posted by users, which in one case appeared to show a gang rape. Also, the committee said there was a “lax approach” by some sites to remove illegal material. It was “shocking” that the industry standard for removing material containing child abuse was as long as 24 hours. Today’s report said that an industry self-regulatory body should lay down minimum standards for the sector. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel - July 31st 2008 |
| Some patients are still struggling to get access to their GP, a survey has revealed. A study of 69,000 people in England found 55 per cent had difficulties getting through their GP practice or health centre on the phone. The survey also found that 13 per cent of patients waited longer than two days because no earlier appointment was available. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 31st 2008 |
| Residents have until Friday to give their views on how Stoke-on-trent should be run. The government is phasing out the existing elected mayor and council manager system from May next year and offering a choice of two replacements. The first options involves an elected mayor who would work with a cabinet of elected councillors to make key decisions and implement policies. The second choice would see a leader chosen by councillors from within there own ranks, who would probably emerge from the dominant political party. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel - August 4th 2008 |
| Vaccinating children against flu would prevent the spread of the virus in the whole population, research suggests. An annual flu jab for the under-fives could reduce some types of infection by up to 70 per cent, a team at The Health Protection Agency reported. They say immunising children would particularly protect the elderly. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 4th 2008 |
| Lad mags encourage irresponsible behaviour among young men and promote a negative image of women, a leading Tory is due to say. Shadow education secretary Michael Gove is expected to link the magazines to relationship breakdown and fatherless children. He intends to rebuke them for their “instant-hit hedonism”. | |
| The Sentinel - August 4th 2008 | |
| Workers’ confidence about the security of their jobs has hit a new low, according to research today. A survey of 2,000 adults by Lloyds TSB showed that almost a third believed their job was less secure than a year ago, while 61 per cent thought they were the same, with just one in 10 saying they were better. Almost two thirds said employment prospects were worse. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - August 4th 2008 |
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