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| Oatcakes served up at a Potteries takeaway have been named as one of the 25 best breakfasts in Britain. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel - 30 December 2014 |
| The number of victims claiming historical child abuse could reach the tens of thousands and is too many for the state to cope with, an MP says. John Mann, who has given a dossier of allegations of historical abuse to Scotland Yard, said victims wanted a national institute. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - 2 January 2015 |
| As typical Sunday attendances have halved to 800,000 in the last 40 years, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have warned that membership needs to increase ‘as a matter of urgency’. They also said there could be a dramatic shortage of priests within a decade and a financial crisis, as the organisation has to maintain thousands of historic buildings. | |
| Church | Bible Society - 16th January 2015 |
| The Principal of Grindon Hall Christian School, in Sunderland, has complained that 10-year-old children were asked by Ofsted inspectors about lesbian sex and transsexuality to test whether it was complying with new requirements to promote ‘British values’. Inspectors also asked children as young as six about their knowledge of Hindu festivals and the Jewish Torah as part of a special inspection in the wake of the Trojan Horse scandal. | |
| Education | Bible Society - 16th January 2015 |
| A Christian-run bakery in Northern Ireland is still under threat of legal action after declining to produce a pro-gay marriage campaign cake. The McArthur family, who own the Ashers Baking Company, said they could not fulfil the order because of their conviction that marriage is between a man and a woman...A survey of over 2,000 people found that most believed the Christians had been treated unfairly...A poll commissioned by The Christian Institute found that 60% of British adults agree it was "disproportionately heavy-handed" for the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland to seek to take the bakery to court. It also showed that most people agree there should be protection in law so that people are not forced to provide goods or services that violate their sincerely-held beliefs. | |
| The Law | The Christian Institute - Autumn 2014 |
| Households with a single bread-winner spent more than they earned last year, as the typical outgoings of families increased, official figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said its Family Spending Report found that households spent £517.30 per week in 2013, a rise of more than £16 on the previous year when adjusted for inflation but below 2006 levels. Income data had previously shown average weekly earnings at £517 per person during the period. Housing, fuel and power costs overtook transport to become the biggest area of spending at a record £74.40 per week. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - 3rd December 2014 |
| Workers have won a ground-breaking case to include overtime in holiday pay. This means some people working overtime could claim for additional holiday pay. Currently, only basic pay counts when calculating holiday pay. The tribunal also ruled that workers can make backdated claims but only for a limited period. However, the ruling could be referred to the Court of Appeal, meaning that a final decision may be years away. The ruling has widespread implications for companies where staff are required to do overtime as a regular part of their job. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - November 5th 2014 |
| Education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has been named as the joint winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The 17 year-old who survived being shot in the head by Pakistani Taliban gunmen, was presented with the award alongside Indian child rights campaigner, Kallash Satyarthi. She became the youngest ever to receive the accolade. The Nobel committee said both were ‘champions of peace’. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - December 12th 1014 |
| Half of Women and 43% of men in England now regularly take prescription drugs, a survey has shown. Cholesterol-lowering statins, pain relief and anti-depressants were among the most prescribed medicines. The Health Survey for England showed an average of 18.7% prescriptions per person in England in 2013. The cost to the NHS was more than £15 billion a year. More than a fifth of men and nearly a quarter of women are taking at least three prescriptions. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - December 11th 2014 |
| Funerals are becoming so hard to afford that some people are burying relatives in their back gardens, an MP has claimed. Emma Lewell-Buck said some people were holding ‘do it yourself’ funerals because of rising costs. She proposed a bill calling for a review of costs and for providers to offer an affordable, simple service. The Labour MP for South Shields said the average funeral had reached £3,551. She added, many people were turning to Payday lenders to fund funerals and getting into “serious financial deficit”. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - December 10th 2014 |
| Hundreds of private webcams in the UK can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection. A Russian website has been streaming images from webcams around the world, including CCTV and baby monitors. The site, which has been operation for a month, gains access by using the default logins and passwords for the web camera. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - November 21st 2014 |
| The leaders of more than 100 English councils have demanded more powers be devolved from Westminster. They said votes would not accept greater devolution to Scotland if a transfer did not also take place in England in a letter to the Observer. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - December 1st 2014 |
| More than a million pre-payment gas customers have been overcharged because their meters are faulty, the industry has admitted. About 1.5 million meters have not been working properly since they were installed, some as long ago as 2007. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - November 27th 2014 |
| David Cameron says the big internet companies have a ‘social responsibility’ to act on terrorist material posted on line. It comes after a report into Fusiler Lee Rigby’s murder found one of his killers spoke on line about murdering a soldier five months before the attack. The intelligence agencies did not know about this exchange, understood to have been on Facebook until afterwards. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - November 26th 2014 |
| Police and security services will get new powers to defend the UK from the biggest terror threat before or since 9/11. Unveilling a new counter-terrorism bill, Home Secretary, Theresa May said the UK faced a security struggle ‘on many fronts’. Schools, Universities and councils will be required to take steps to counter radicalisation. Internet providers have to retain Internet Protocol address data to identify individual users. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - November 25th 2014 |
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