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| Ceramics firms will not receive compensation to offset crippling energy costs after a ruling by EU ministers. Support for energy-intensive industries with the cost of UK’s Carbon Price floor – a tax on fossil fuels used to generate electricity – was announced by Chancellor George Osborne in 2011 and expanded on in the Budget this year. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, April 23, 2014 |
| Overall crime in England and Wales fell by 15% in 2013. The Crime Survey for England and Wales reported 7.5 million crimes against households and adults in that year, the lowest level since it began in 1981. Separate police figures showed a 2% fall in crime for 2013, with increases in areas such as fraud (25%) as well as a 17% rise in reported sex offences following the Jimmy Saville scandal. The report, published by the Office for National Statistics estimates crime level based on how many people say they have been crime victims. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, April 25, 2014 |
| Tony Blair has urged a deal with Bashar Assad in Syria and further NATO involvement in Libya as part of a ‘titanic’ struggle against radical Islam. The former prime minister said the West had to focus its efforts on tackling religious extremism, insisting it lay behind most of world’s most intractable problems. Failure to shake off the legacy of Iraq and take sides’ with moderates in the Middle East and beyond could mean the 21st century is dominated by conflict rather than peaceful co-operation, he warned in a speech at Bloomberg in London. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Sentinel, April 24, 2014 |
| Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have said shoppers must be told how animals have been slaughtered including on products that are not kosher or halal. | |
| Food and Drink | The Daily Telegraph - 7th May 2014 (re-published by Bible Society) |
| In the wake of the recession Britain is becoming a nation of Good Samaritans, according to an international league table. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development show people in Britain are 24 per cent more likely to go out of their way to help a stranger than the average citizen from the world’s other leading industrial nations. The study also found volunteering is on the increase in the UK. | |
| Social Issues | The Telegraph - 7th May 2014 (republished by Bible Society) |
| Incidence rates of the most serious form of skin cancer are now five times higher than in the mid 1970s. Increases in package holidays and sun bed use are thought to have fuelled this rise. | |
| Health | Cancer Research UK - 8th May 2014 |
| Britain’s big four supermarket chains have surrendered more ground to their discount rivals in the wake of a record quarter of growth for Aldi. All the main chains posted declining sales in the 12 weeks to March 30. The share held by market leader Tesco fell to 28.6% from 29.7% a year earlier, Asda’s market share was 17.4% against 17.6% a year ago, Sainsbury’s dropped to 16.5% from 16.9% and Morrisons’ fell to 11.1% from 11.6%. In contrast, Aldi achieved its highest growth in sales yet of 35.3% as its market position jumped from 3.4% a year ago to 4.6%. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, April 9, 2014 |
| Scientists at Keele University have contributed to a breakthrough in research into rare muscle disease. They have discovered that a chemical found in plants could reduce the symptoms of spinal muscular atrophy which leaves children with little or no control of movement in their legs. The North Staffordshire boffins were part of an international study led by Edinburgh University, which showed that a plant pigment called quercetin – found in some fruits, vegetables, herbs and grains – could help to prevent the damage to nerves associated with the childhood form of motor neurone disease. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, April 9, 2014 |
| The Young Atheist’s Handbook is being sent to every secondary school in England and Wales – The initiative is the latest effort from the British Humanist Association (BHA) to support the teaching of humanist ideas in schools. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Bible Society – 2nd May 2014 |
| An Indian study found a statistically significant 2.8-fold increased breast cancer risk among women who'd had abortions. Dr. Unmesh Takalkar led the study. He serves as a consultant surgeon and chief medical director at United CIIGMA Hospital in India and an endoscopic surgeon and fellow at Johns Hopkins. Although dozens of studies dating from 1957 support an abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link, the latest study is the seventh on the Indian subcontinent to implicate abortion as a risk factor for the disease, with a Bangladesh study reporting as much as a statistically significant 20-fold risk elevation. Four additional Indian studies and a Sri Lankan study reported findings showing abortion significantly multiplied breast cancer risk between 1.9 and 6.38 times. | |
| Health | Christian Newswire, 30th April 2014 |
| 40 years ago, just 1 in 4 people beat cancer. Today 2 in 4 diagnosed will live for at least a decade. | |
| Health | Cancer Research, April 29th 2014 |
| Nearly one in six prisoners released in error in the last four years are still at large. A total of 148 prisoners have been set free when they shouldn’t have been since May 2010 and 24 have not been returned to jail, figures released by Justice Minister Jeremy Wright showed. Most of them (13) were released from category C prisons, while three came from female prisons and eight remained ‘uncategorised’. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel, April 4, 2014 |
| As many as 100,000 workers each year are facing a poverty-stricken retirement as they will have only the state pension to live on, worrying new figures reveal. Despite a lifetime of work, 14 per cent of the 750,000 people who reach state pension age in 2014 have no private pension or other savings to boost their income in old age. But the basic state pension of £113.10 a week amounts to just £6,000 a year to pay bills, warns a report by pension giant Prudential. Even those who have saved will not have enough put by to ensure a comfortable retirement – with a fifth not reaching the minimum income standard of £8,600 for a single pensioner and £12,500 for a couple. Women are nearly three times more likely to rely on the state pension than men, the report found. | |
| The Elderly | Daily Express, April 9 2014 |
| A new £2,000-a-year tax break for childcare will allow parents to choose to go out and work longer hours, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. The new scheme, unveiled ahead of today’s Budget and due to come into effect in autumn 2015, will help around 1.9 million families where both parents work and has been welcomed by charities. But is has come under fire from some quarters for excluding couples where one parent does not work and being made available to high-earning households with a joint income of as much as £300,000. Labour said support for children and families had been cut by £15 billion since the coalition came to office in 2010 and dismissed the promise of a tax break after the next general election as ‘too little too late’. | |
| Family | The Sentinel, March 19, 2014 |
| Scientists have developed a simple DNA blood test which they claim can predict obesity levels in children. Researchers at the Universities of Southampton, Exeter and Plymouth have found that the test, which is carried out when a child is five years old, can predict how much body they will have when they are 14. The test checks a gene called the PGC1 that regulates fat storage in the body. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, March 26, 2014 |
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