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| Vicars will be able to “dress down” for services under new proposals backed by the Church of England. Robes or vestments could be swapped for more informal wear under plans passed by the General Synod meeting at York University. The Rev Christopher Hobbs, from the London Diocese, who proposed the changes, said being willing to adapt and change was one of the “key factors” for growth in the Church of England. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Sentinel, July 14, 2014 |
| Chemicals supplied by British firms to Syria in the early 1980s are likely to have been used to make nerve agent sarin, William Hague has said. The Foreign Secretary said records showed a number of companies exported substances to the country in the mid 1980s that had legitimate uses in producing plastics and pharmaceuticals, and were not restricted under international or UK law. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel, July 10, 2014 |
| Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has suggested closer scrutiny of schools may be needed as he confirmed the watchdog had visited other towns and cities in the wake of the alleged ‘Trojan horse’ takeover plot in Birmingham. The watchdog has visited schools in areas including Bradford and Luton due to concerns about how they are being run. Last month Ofsted issued a damning verdict on the running of schools in Birmingham. Five schools in the city were placed in special measures after a series of inspections in the wake of the ‘Trojan horse’ allegations. | |
| Education | The Sentinel, July 10, 2014 |
| Chancellor George Osborne wishes he had done more to help Britain’s economy when the coalition first came to power. Mr Osborne told youngsters in a question and answer session, he regretted attempts to reform the economy had not gone far enough. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, July 4, 2014 |
| British film director Steve McQueen said it was ‘upsetting’ after a survey found one in five black children thought their skin colour would make it more difficult for them to be successful. Research by BBC’s Newsround programme found 21% of black children felt it would make it harder to succeed in the future, compared with just 2% of white children and 13% of Asian origin. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel, July 1, 2014 |
| Northern cities could be offered ‘serious devolution of powers and budgets’ in return for adopting elected mayors with powers similar to those enjoyed by Boris Johnson in London, Chancellor George Osborne has announced. It came as he set out his vision of an economic ‘powerhouse’ in the north of England featuring improved road links, investment in science and a new high-speed rail link between Manchester and Leeds. Elected mayors were rejected in a number of northern cities in 2012, but Mr Osborne made clear he was ready to offer a bigger carrot in terms of local decision-making power to tempt the cities to reconsider. Bringing the cities of the north together could create a second ‘global city’ for the UK, which would not be a rival but a ‘brother in arms’ for London as they fight to grow Britain’s share in the world economy, he said. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel, June 24, 2014 |
| MPs would deserve a pay rise of up to 50% if Britain votes to leave the European Union, Ukip leader Nigel Farage said. He said there was no case for an increase in pay at present. But he suggested that if Parliament ‘actually ran this country’ then he would back boosting pay from the present £67,060 to £90,000 or even £100,000. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel, July 9, 2014 |
| The top civil servant at the Home Office has admitted he is ‘concerned’ more than 100 files linked to allegations of paedophile activity in Westminster are missing. Mark Sedwill said there were no surviving records of what had been destroyed or lost from the 1980s and 1990s. He also announced Richard Whittam QC will be leading a fresh inquiry into the Home Office’s handling of information it received during the period – including a 1983 dossier from ex-MP Geoffrey Dickens. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, July 9, 2014 |
| The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil – the niqab. A case was brought by a 24-year-old French woman, who argued that the ban on wearing the veil in public violated her freedom of expression. French law says nobody can wear in a public space clothing intended to conceal the face. The penalty for doing so can be a 150-euro fine (£120). A breach of the ban can also mean a wearer having to undergo citizenship instruction. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel, July 2, 2014 |
| CARE’s latest opinion poll also found that 12% would switch from support of assisted suicide to opposition when presented with the fact that the major disability rights groups oppose a change in the law. Furthermore, support for the law change drops by 10% when it is revealed that the majority of doctors oppose it. | |
| Health | CARE - 18th July 2014 |
| When the Death With Dignity Act first passed in Oregon in 1997, just over 13% of patients chose assisted suicide under the Act because of concerns about being a burden to others. In 2013 over 49% of patients in the State chose assisted suicide because they feared they might become a burden. | |
| Health | CARE - 18th July 2014 |
| Children as young as ten are sharing explicit images over social media and on mobile phones, according to Freedom of Information requests. Dorset Police dealt with 66 incidents of sexting in the past year, nearly twice as many as the previous year. An NSPCC survey last year suggested that 60 per cent of teenagers had been asked to take sexual images or videos of themselves, and 40 per cent had created such content. | |
| Sex | Christian Institute - 27th June 2014 |
| Of those who died under the Washington State Death with Dignity Act in 2013, being a “burden on family, friends/caregivers” was cited by 61% of patients as one of their end of life concerns. | |
| Health | CARE - 18th July 2014 |
| Supermarkets must double the amount of unwanted food they hand out to Britain’s hungry to help to combat ‘immoral’ levels of waste, a parliamentary inquiry has warned. The inquiry, which has the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has called on retailers to cut the amount of surplus food disposed of in landfill by 100,000 tones by the end of the decade. | |
| Food and Drink | Bible Society - 6th June 2014 |
| According to a ComRes poll published by CARE, 21% of adults (one in five) would change from supporting assisted suicide to opposing it when faced with the evidence that there has been a steady annual increase in the number of cases and spread of the practice to involve people with chronic but not fatal diseases, disabled people, children and those with mental illnesses and dementia in countries which have changed the law to allow assisted suicide. And when the expense of hospice care (£3-4,000/week) is compared with the low cost of the lethal drugs used to end lives (£5) the threat of end of life care worsening under financial pressures changed the minds of 15% of supporters of assisted suicide who instead opted to oppose it. | |
| Health | CARE - 18th July 2014 |
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