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| The Government will have to borrow almost £100 billion more than previously forecast as it tries to bring a deeper-than-expected UK recession under control. In its latest dire warning on the economy, the CBI business group said the economy will shrink by 3.3 per cent in 2009, compared with its November forecast of a 1.7 per cent contraction. It is also predicted State borrowing would be much higher than Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Budget had forecast. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - 16th February 2009 |
| Homeowners are returning to the property market looking to pick up bargains following recent house price falls. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said new buyer enquiries had risen for three months in a row – the first time this has happened since 2006. Seven out of 10 surveyors think lower house prices are responsible for the growth in interest. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel – 17th February 2009 |
| Eight young people in Staffordshire have been elected to office in the UK Youth Parliament Elections. A record number of more than 13,100 votes were registered, electing four young people to become members of the youth parliament (MYPs), and Deputy Members of the Youth Parliament (DMYPs). | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – 18th February 2009 |
| The Government will miss its target of halving child poverty by 2010 unless it spends an extra £4.2 billion a year raising tax credits, a report warned today. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation study estimates the Government will miss the target by 600,000 children unless the money is found. The research predicts that the number of children in poverty will fall to 2.3 million by 2010, missing the target of 1.7 million set by Tony Blair. | |
| Family | The Sentinel - 18th February 2009 |
| Emergency funding should be extended to manufacturing firms if the Government is serious about helping the “real economy”, a report has urged. The Work Foundation said that because the strength of the UK’s financial services sector was now in question, manufacturing represented one of the best chances for an economic upturn. TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said “This is a welcome report that shows the importance of manufacturing for the economy.” | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - 18th February 2009 |
| One in three GP’s would refuse to work in a surgery that offered abortions, a new poll has suggested. Almost half (49%) of 480 doctors questioned also called for a cut in the current 24-week time limit for an abortion, with 11% wanting it to be lowered to 15 weeks or under. A total of 48% thought the 24-week limit should remain, while 3% believed it should be increased to 26 weeks or more. More than half (56%) of the GPs questioned by GP Newspaper said offering abortions in surgeries or polyclinics would lead to more women having the procedure. | |
| Health | The Universe - 15th February 15th 2009 |
| According to a survey by the Local Government Association (LGA), nearly one in three NHS primary care trusts have reported an increase in alcohol-related incidents since the 2003 Licensing Act. Half of the Police authorities say that, far from creating the promised continental-style café culture in the UK, the new laws have simply pushed alcohol-related violence later into the evening. Seven out of ten police authorities and Councils say that 24-hour drinking has either increased or failed to change levels of alcohol-related incidents. Councils confirm that £100million in taxpayers’ money has been paid out to implement the changes. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Day One Magazine - Feb-May 2009 |
| The poet laureate, Andrew motion, has made a significant call for the Bible to be taught in schools. His contention, from an atheist’s standpoint, is that literature and cultural history simply cannot be understood in the context of the religious illiteracy we have today. Describing some of the students he has taught (Guardian, Book of Revelation, February 17, 2009) he said: “So when the time came to talk about Milton, I found very few knew there had been a civil war. As for the Bible, forget it. They just about knew who Adam and Eve were.” | |
| Education | Church of England Newspaper - 20th February 2009 |
| “35 Million Yob Crimes a Year” screamed an exaggerated Daily Express headline last week. Rarely do the presss miss an opportunity to report the latest example of antisocial behaviour amongst Britain’s youth. Indeed, for as long as I can remember the media has focused more on the problems with young people than the positives. Society is constantly bombarded with words and images that detail the transgression of today’s youth. We are shown a world of knife-crime, mugging, binge-drinking and drug-taking. According to a recent poll commissioned by Barnardo’s, more than half of the adult respondents (53%) said that children were beginning to “behave like animals”. Even more shockingly, 45% now refer to children as “feral”. In reality, according to the British Crime Survey, it is actually adults who are responsible for 88% of criminal activity. | |
| Crime | Church of England Newspaper - 20th February 2009 |
| One of the longest-serving diocesan bishops in the country is urging his clergy and PCCs: “Open your churches for people who may want to use them to cry in…” The extraordinary plea comes from the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester. He issues the call in a New Year message to the Kent diocese he has headed since 1994. The 59-year-old church leader, who chairs the House of Bishops theological group, comes out with the suggestion in a comment on the financial crisis. | |
| Church | The Church of England Newspaper - 2nd January 2009 |
| Britain’s leading charity fundraiser has claimed religions no longer provide the relevant moral leadership, and have been replaced by charities more sympathetic to contemporary issues. NfpSynergy is the UK’s only think-tank and research consultancy dedicated to the charity sector. It conducted a survey of a representative sample of 1,000 people aged 16 and over asking which human activities they most consider immoral or unethical. The think-tank reported: “‘Bullying’ tops a wide-ranging prompted list, ajudged immoral or very immoral by 87%of people, trailed by ‘discriminating against people because they are different’ (81%), ‘buying goods that have been produced using child workers’ (75%) and a plethora of other activities and issues – many of them highlighted and challenged by charities and campaigners today. “At the other end of the modern-day ‘sin spectrum’, the activities considered least immoral are ‘living together before marriage’ (14%) and ‘havign sex before marriage’ (13%) – activities still the subject of many religious pronouncements and teachings.” | |
| Social Issues | Church of England Newspaper - 20th February 2009 |
| Police were called to schools in England more than 7,000 times in the past year to deal with violence, figures revealed today. Shadow children’s secretary Michael Gove said the statistics, obtained via a Freedom of Information request to which 25 of 39 English police forces responded, were very worrying. The figures revealed that officers were called to 7,311 violent incidents in schools during 2007/8. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - 23rd December 2008 |
| The atheist bus advertising campaign launched in the UK earlier this month has been banned in Genoa after it was opposed by conservative political parties. The UK advertisement reads: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”. It has been endorsed by professor Richard Dawkins, and was backed by the Christian think-tank Theos, which saw it as a way of promoting debate about the existence of God. But the Italian version of the advert, which read “The bad news is, God doesn’t exist. The good news is, you don’t need him”, faced criticism from right-wing politicians in Genoa, and was pulled. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Church Times - 23rd January 2009 |
| Thousands of teachers across England are off sick every day, the Tories claimed today. More than 311,000 full and part-time teachers took sick leave in 2007. This is a loss of almost three million working days last year. As there are around 195 days in the school year, this is the equivalent to around 15,000 teachers being off sick each day, the Tories claimed. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - 30th December 2008 |
| The evidence that we have from the 2001 [UK] census is that more than 72 per cent of people under no pressure whatsoever described themselves as Christian and 6 per cent as belonging to another faith. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Prayer Magazine - January 2009 |
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