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| The dire quality of many school leavers threatens to undermine Britain’s future success in manufacturing and science leading business figures have warned. Bosses warned that science and technology firms could abandon British graduates in future and look abroad to economic rivals like India and China for new staff. | |
| Education | The Sentinel – 14th August 2006 |
| Workers in the Potteries (Stoke-on-Trent) are among the poorest paid in the UK. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 14th August 2006 |
| More than half a million women and girls are held in prisons globally. England and Wales’ female prisoner population of 4,392 constitutes 5.7% of the total in the two countries. About a third of the worldwide total are in the U.S. (183,000) and a further third in China (71,280), the Russian Federation (55,400) and Thailand (28,450). | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 7th August 2006 |
| The recent rise in temperature is fuelling a rise in women’s tempers, according to new research. A summer time stress epidemic has hit British females, with 70% admitting to losing it more easily with friends, family and partners during the hot and humid months. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel – 7th August 2006 |
| More Britons than ever before want to turn their dreams of a new life abroad into a reality, according to a poll. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel – 3rd August 2006 |
| In the UK as a whole there are 13 million grandparents, a quarter of the adult population, with an average of 4.4 grandchildren. | |
| Family | Christian Marketplace – July 2006 |
| The number of churchgoing people in England aged 60 or over has moved from 1.20 million in 1985 to 1.5 million in 1995 to 1.10 million in 2005. | |
| Church | Christian Marketplace – July 2006 |
| Under 18s could be banned from buying cigarettes under proposals being put to the public today in a bid to cut cancer deaths. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 3rd July 2006 |
| More than 8,000 pupils were suspended from schools throughout Staffordshire and Cheshire last year after they were caught behaving badly or breaking rules. | |
| Education | The Sentinel – 5th July 2006 |
| Women suffering from rheumatoid arthritis need access to better treatments and care according to a charity and MPs. Women are three times more likely to suffer from the condition than men and there are around 450,000 women with it in the UK. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 6th July 2006 |
| Marine Creatures are under threat from chemical changes in the sea caused by carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel – 6th July 2006 |
| World Cup fans fell foul of pranksters in Berlin who filled footballs with concrete. They chained them to lampposts and fences with a sign saying “Can you kick it?” Two fans have required treatment after doing so. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel – 6th July 2006 |
| Whooping cough is endemic among UK schoolchildren despite the fact most have been immunized. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 7th July 2006 |
| Children from poorer families are 13 times more likely to die from injury than those who are well off. They are at far greater risk of being killed in accidents than those whose parents are in professional or managerial roles. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 7th July 2006 |
| A group of bishops have warned Prime Minister Tony Blair that the possession of Trident nuclear weapons is evil and profoundly anti God. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - 10th July 2006 |
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