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Friday Jan 02 2009
The government has launched a healthy living campaign in a bid to stem rising obesity rates in England. It includes television adverts warning too much body fat leads to cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Ministers warned that, if left alon...
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The European Union is planning to take Britain to court for consistently breaching air pollution laws, which could result in unlimited daily fines. Air pollution near many roads averages well over twice the UN's World Health Organisation maximum r...
Read MoreWednesday Dec 31 2008
Disabled people and those with long-term health conditions are facing higher levels of negative treatment in the workplace according to new research published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The British Workplace Behaviour Survey 2008 of...
Read MoreWednesday Dec 24 2008
Britain's dependence on natural gas as a source of energy is growing, even as supplies from the North Sea are running out, figures suggest. They indicate that the UK is relying increasingly on gas as its primary source of fuel for electricity gen...
Read MoreTuesday Dec 23 2008
Angel Gurria, who heads up the Paris-based institution, also blamed "a truly scandalous failure" of regulatory supervision for the crisis and urged European countries to spend more Keynesian-style plans to boost their economies. Speaking to Frenc...
Read MoreTuesday Dec 23 2008
Homeless charities' Christmas campaigns have begun amid fears the new year could see homelessness surge. In London, homeless children are handing over 5,000 baubles to Downing Street bearing messages calling for more affordable housing to be buil...
Read MoreMonday Dec 22 2008
Genetically modified oilseed rape has been found in Somerset fields where trials of non-modified crops were being carried out. A Defra investigation shows that the unapproved seed was accidentally sewn in the field, rather than there being any su...
Read MoreSaturday Dec 20 2008
When Leeds University students voted to ban bottled water last week it proved something important: that big organisations, for the sake of sustainability, can make decisions that hit their bottom line. During the academic year 2007/08, Leeds Universi...
Read MoreSaturday Dec 20 2008
Charities are in trouble. Millions have been wiped off reserves, income looks shaky, staff are having to be laid off, and more and more people are asking for our services. But why should we care? The answer is that our society is dependent on the...
Read MoreSaturday Dec 20 2008
Discrimination against gay people in the workplace will be treated more harshly by the courts after two landmark judgments yesterday. Lillian Ladele, the registrar who refused to conduct same-sex civil partnership ceremonies "as a matter of religi...
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