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| A “FAT TAX” on unhealthy food could prevent more than 3,000 deaths from heart attack and stroke every year in the UK, experts said. Some researchers are in favour of such a tax while others would prefer to see healthy foods subsidised instead. Today’s study involved testing different economic models to work out how a fat tax may affect people’s buying habits. Three different approaches were tried out, but the most effective approach was to introduce a tax on a wide range of products with the aim of cutting the intake of fat, salt and sugar. It would prevent up to 3,200 deaths from heart disease and stroke every year. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, - July 12 2007 |
| Official goods bearing the logo of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have been made in factories where child labour is “rife”, the TUC claimed today. The union said children as young as 12 were producing the merchandise in China. Researchers said they also found adults earning 14p per hour (half the legal minimum wage in China) and employees who were made to work up to 15 hours per day, seven days a week. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - June 11 2007 |
| Brazil is witnessing a staggering growth in Pentecostal churches, it has been reported. About 40 new Pentecostal churches open in Rio de Janeiro each week, attracting many people away from the traditional Catholic churches. In a recent survey the proportion of Brazilians describing themselves as Catholic fell from 84% to 74%, with 18% saying they belonged to a Pentecostal church. There are almost 18 times as many Pentecostal ministers as Catholic priests. | |
| Church | Direction - July 2007 |
| House price inflation more than halved in June as higher interest rates weakened homebuyer demand, a report today indicates. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said 10.6 per cent more of its members reported a rise in values than a fall during the month. It is the second consecutive month of easing price growth. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel, - July 12 2007 |
| The wasted talents of unemployed disabled people are costing the economy billions of pounds, a think tank warned today. Improving the skills of the 6.8 million working age disabled could give Britain a £25 billion boost over the next three decades according to a Social Market Foundation(SMF) study. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - June 11 2007 |
| The loft living dream is over, at least in Nottingham. The city is now dotted with hundreds of empty city centre apartments – 600 according to one report. It depends who you talk to as to how the Nottingham city centre residential market is performing. For every scare story about a ghost town, whose only occupants are students, there is research showing that, by 2012, the number of people living in the city centre will have risen by 6,000 to 22,000. | |
| Housing | Insider - July 2007 |
| The bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones…took issue with a Daily Mail headline: ‘Floods are God’s vengeance for our sins, warns bishop.’ He said: ‘When people lose their lives, others their homes and livelihoods, it is important pastorally to say that the disaster is not a judgement of God on them. That is why I refused to use the language of judgment. God has created a world of cause and effect. If we change the climate through profligate use of carbon, it is we who bring upon ourselves and others the consequences of reaping what we sow.’ | |
| Disasters/War | Salvationist (Church Times) - 14 July 2007-07-27 |
| Obesity has played a part in at least 20 child protection cases across the UK in the last year, a study has found. One doctor spoke of a 10-year-old girl who could walk only a few yards with a stick. He believed that her parents were “killing her slowly” with a diet of chips and high fat food, the BBC said. Some doctors now believe extreme cases of overfeeding a child should be seen as a form of abuse of neglect. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 14 2007 |
| Kaka had only one thought in his mind after eclipsing Wayne Rooney, Ronaldo and the rest afterwards: to thank god. He said “I was born into a Christian home, baptized and in 1994 something supernatural happened to me. I cannot explain it but after that I got closer to God – more in tune with him.” He remained a virgin until marrying his wife Caroline in 2005 when such modern ‘legends’ as Cafu, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos attended the wedding. Kaka always throws his hands into the air giving the glory for his on field brilliance to God and off the pitch he lives out his faith. | |
| What famous people say | The Son - Summer 2007 |
| 68 per cent of Britons believe climate change is already happening, but 51 per cent think it will have little or no immediate effect. 27 per cent admit they are doing nothing to combat climate change, and 70 per cent say it’s up to the Government to take a lead by passing laws. | |
| Environment | Salvationist (The Week) - 14 July 2007 |
| Immigrants should be given “cultural briefing packs” when they move to the UK, an official report will say today. The information may tell new arrivals that, for example, the British like to queue at the bus stop. The cultural packs would be drawn up by local councils, according to The Commission on Integration and Cohesion. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - June 14 2007 |
| Natasha Bedingfield says “People are defensive about religion a lot of the time. They want to bring out a reaction in you that’s some way Bible bashing or finger pointing- that’s their expectation. For me though, it’s my rock. It was how I was brought up and it’s made me who I am.” | |
| What famous people say | The Son - Summer 2007 |
| Human rights campaigner Baroness Cox has raised 'serious questions' in the House of Lords over the emergence of Sharia councils in England and Wales. Baroness Cox, a vocal campaigner on behalf of Christians persecuted in Islamic states, was told that 'a number of Sharia councils' now operate in England and Wales on 'a private basis where parties consent'. They 'deal with the mediation and resolution of personal and contractual disputes', Under-Secretary-of-State for Justice, Baroness Ashton, said. The councils are not part of Britain's legal system and 'in all cases, parties will have recourse to the UK courts', she added. However, Baroness Cox stressed that 'Sharia does not recognise equality between men and women and Muslims and non-Muslims'. She felt that government recognition of Sharia law was a 'serious issue' and has tabled further questions asking how it will ensure that women will in practice have recourse to the UK courts | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Church of England Newspaper - 6th July 2007 |
| GCSE students with hayfever are 40 per cent more likely to drop a grade between their mocks and final exams- rising to 70 per cent if they are taking a sedating anti-histamine treatment. Teenagers with severe hayfever and a history of symptoms are twice as likely to drop a grade, according to the survey in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 14 2007 |
| Political apathy seems to be one of the main features of today’s cultural landscape. Politicians and commentators are repeatedly bemoaning it. Around a fifth of British people have no interest in politics whatsoever, according to a survey published in March. Even students don’t get worked up like they used to. Nearly three quarters of the population say that they trust politicians “not very much” or “not at all”. It seems that this widespread mistrust of the whole political process has made “politics” a dirty word. | |
| Politics | Idea - July/August 2007 |
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