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| Women in Norway may soon find themselves catapulted into senior executive jobs in companies, if it goes ahead with plans for a quota of female boardroom appointments. Norway has one of the highest proportion of female directors in the EU, with about 16% of boardroom roles held by women. But it is planning to legislate next year for women to fill 40% of such jobs. The business community has been outraged at the idea..At the bottom of the EU league table on numbers of female directors are Iceland, Ireland, Spain, Luxembourg and Italy..Slovenia is top..The UK comes sixth in the EU. | |
| Work/Employment | The Independent – 8th December 2004 |
| Less than half of hospitals have the high standards of cleanliness necessary to defeat MRSA and other infections, a government survey has shown..The survey showed that 574 hospitals (48%) were rated good or excellent for cleanliness. The remainder scraped through as "acceptable", with 24 rated "poor" and three "unacceptable". | |
| Health | The Independent – 8th December 2004 |
| The French government plans to help the integration of Muslims by setting up a foundation to build mosques and by teaching imams the language, laws and customs of France. Dominique de Villepin, the Interior Minister, said yesterday it was "unacceptable" that three quarters of the country's 1,200 Muslim religious leaders were foreign and a third could not speak French. | |
| Social Issues | The Independent – 8th December 2004 |
| A third of posts for consultant physicians in the NHS are unfilled. A report by The Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians blamed the shortage - there are around 500 vacancies - on planning decisions made some years ago. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel – 8th December 2004 |
| Global efforts to curb the spread of HIV/Aids are failing because the world has not recognised that it is a female epidemic, a report said yesterday. Aids claimed 3.1 million lives last year, the highest ever, and the rate at which women and girls are affected is accelerating. The spread of the disease shows no sign of slowing, despite billions of pounds invested in treatment and prevention. The annual report on the Aids epidemic, published by UNAids and the World Health Organisation yesterday, says a record 39.4 million people are living with HIV, up from 36.6 million two years ago. Globally, the fastest increase in infections is among women and girls. They account for 57% of all those infected in sub-Saharan Africa, the worst hit region, and for 75% of those aged 15 to 24. | |
| Health | The Independent – 24th November 2004 |
| Employees at Stoke-on-Trent City Council's under-fire social services department have clocked up 26 years of sickness in just three months. The Directorate of Social Services recorded 9,592 sick days in the three months to the end of June, with almost a third of the absences due to "nervous illness" brought about by pressures at work. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel – 19th November 2004 |
| A cheap and widely available antibiotic could be used to cut Aids-related death in African children by more than 40%, Government backed scientists said today.A group of 541 children, aged one to 14, infected with the Aids virus HIV were either given daily doses of the antibiotic, or an inactive placebo. After 19 months, about a quarter of the treated children had died compared with more than 40% of those receiving the dummy drug. Using the antibiotic also reduced hospital admissions by 23%. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 19th November 2004 |
| A glass of red wine a day could keep tumours at bay, according to a study of men with lung cancer. Research published in the medical journal Thorax today suggests a person drinking a glass of red wine each day is 13% less likely to contract lung cancer than those not drinking red wine. | |
| Food and Drink | The Independent – 28th October 2004 |
| Euthanasia and killings by abused partners could be down-graded to manslaughter under a wide-ranging review of the law on murder announced yesterday by the Home Office. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 28th October 2004 |
| The intelligence services will be given unprecedented access to the government database underpinning the controversial identity card scheme, the Home Office said yesterday, prompting accusations of Big Brother style surveillance of people's everyday lives.The Home Office had originally planned to phase in ID cards from 2007-08, as people applied for new or replacement passports, with combined driving licences and ID cards following a few years later. However passport applicants from 2007-08 onwards will now get a new biometric ID card. | |
| Social Issues | The Independent – 28th October 2004 |
| African Bishops condemned the Anglican Church's stance on homosexuality yesterday and said that they would stop sending priests to be trained in countries where same sex relationships were accepted. The 300 Anglican bishops who met in Nigeria for the first African bishops convention said homosexuality was an "unAfrican" practice and warned that congregations would turn away from a church that condoned it..The Anglican Church in Africa currently receives almost three-quarters of its funds from the West, but bishops from Nigeria and Kenya have said they would refuse to accept financial support from American churches that did not share their views on homosexuality.The Anglican Church in Africa is growing at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world, with 17.5 million members living in Nigeria alone, and the issue threatens to tear the global church apart. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Independent – 28th October 2004 |
| More than four million road accidents have been caused by motorists distracted by the bad driving of others. 10% of motorists have been involved in an accident as a result of focusing on others' bad driving, while 44% admitted to near misses after other motorists had driven them to distraction. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel – 22nd November 2004 |
| The overwhelming majority of people in Britain would not be willing to work fewer hours in return for lower pay, according to a new survey. Only 22% of people said they were prepared to work fewer hours. Either people could not afford to; they enjoyed their job so much they did not want to cut back; or they were not prepared to give up spending money, the survey found. There was a regional divide, with 32% in the North willing to cut back, compared with 19% in the South. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel – 22nd November 2004 |
| Nearly 12 million Britons use alcohol to self medicate to relieve symptoms of depression, figures show today. A worryingly-high proportion of adults are dependent on drink and need it to fill a hole in the soul, the new survey revealed.The research by the Priory Group found 23%, or almost 12 million people, have a drink to cheer up when they feel a bit low while 14% use alcohol to give themselves Dutch courage before work or a social event. It also showed more than one in five (21%) admitted to having had a drink to relax or lose their inhibitions before making love. According to the research, a third of adults in the West Midlands (33%) drink when they get depressed..The survey, carried out by ICM for the Daily Mirror, also found that 76% of people thought Prime Minister Tony Blair was losing the war on drugs. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Sentinel – 22nd November 2004 |
| The BBC was intended to be a beacon of inspiration to the country. The Latin inscription on Broadcasting House reads: "This Temple of the Arts and Muses is dedicated to Almighty God by the first Governors of Broadcasting in the year 1931, Sir John Reith being Director-General. It is their prayer that good seed sown may bring forth a good harvest and that the people, inclining their ear to whatsoever things are beautiful and honest and of good report, may tread the path of wisdom and uprightness." | |
| Media | Part of Antony Pitts, Senior Producer, BBC Radio 3, resignation statement as a result of the showing of 'Jerry Springer:The Opera' - 9th January 2005 |
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