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 [...]
