Cash for the 2012 Olympics
LOTTERY games launched five years ago to raise cash for the 2012 Olympics have so far raked in only two-thirds of their target total.
Camelot announced it has raised £500 million from the Olympic-themed games giving it just two years to reach its £750 million goal. The cash raised from games including [...]
English Pupils in Minority
AROUND one in seven youngsters in primary school, almost 500,000, do not have English as their first language. In secondary schools the figure stands at 364,000 just over in 10.
At Nelson Primary in Newham, three quarters of pupils are now not native English speakers and some 56 different languages are spoken. Many [...]
Eat less meat to save lives
BRITONS should significantly reduce the amount of meat they eat in order to save thousands of lives writes Daniel Martin, the Health Reporter at the Daily Express.
Sir Liam Donaldson said that if the country cut its meat consumption by 30 per cent 18,000 premature deaths from heart disease would be [...]
Expatriates Coming Home
BRITONS with a growing number of disillusioned and hard up expatriates heading home according to figures published. The number of British citizen returning home jumped by 13 per cent to 87,000 in 2009, compared with the previous year figures from the Office for National Statistics, which showed in the same period the number [...]
Britain’s soaring population
A STAGGERING nine in ten women are worried about Britain’s soaring population a recent poll has found. Eighty per cent want to cap immigration at 50,000 a year; ‘Townswoman’s Guild’ members polled said current levels were harming community relations. Net migration was 163,000 last year. Labour MP Frank Field said “It’s significant as [...]
Britons change their names
A RECORD number of Britons, 50,000, changed their names by deed poll last year. And some of their choices were bizarre, including, None of the Above, Funky, McFunkmaster and Lydia Mary Paper Scissor Stone. There is also an Ice Man, a George Thomas the Tank Engine and a Blair Coco, Lucy St, [...]
British industry is back in favour
BRITISH companies are ditching foreign factories in favour of making goods in this country. One in seven firms reportedly moved operations back to Britain in the last two years after finding that overseas suppliers produced poor quality goods and often delivered late.
Cheap labour in Eastern Europe and Asia has [...]
How expensive is London?
LONDON has slipped to 20th most expensive city in the world, falling from 2ND spot in 2007.
Prices on 26 goods including milk, mobiles and Big Macs were compared. Norway’s Oslo is the most expensive, followed by Copenhagen in Denmark and Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Paris is No 4 and New York No [...]
Students to guard stars at Olympics
OLYMPIC security chief have ruled out using the Army to protect competitors and spectators at the 2012 Games, and instead they will rely on thousands of teenagers taking a 3 hour events safety course.
The move has provoked anger among military figures, who believe Army expertise is needed to ensure [...]
Britain to cut Global Warming
BRITAIN won’t reach its targets for helping to cut global warming experts warned last month, we will not slash our carbon dioxide emissions by 34 per cent by 2020 as planned.
The Government will also miss the EU target of producing 15 per cent of energy by wind power, solar panels [...]
