Archive for: May, 2011

Charlie Chaplin Ebay bargain goes to auction

Predictions are being made that a rare film featuring Charlie Chaplin will probably be sold for a six-figure amount when it is put up for auction at the famous Bonham’s of Knightsbridge auction house on the 29 June.
The film was bought by Morace Park for £3.20 when he saw it advertised on [...]

Funding for new health campaigns by government

After last years freeze on health advertising campaigns which were costing the government £540 million per annum an announcement has now been made that funding will be resumed.
All but “essential” campaigns had been stopped due to the freeze on the governments advertising budget however last month the Changing Behaviour, Improving Outcomes report by the [...]

Twitter taken to court by South Tyneside Council

Social media comment site Twitter is being taken to the US courts by South Tyneside Council regarding allegedly libellous comments that were made on the website about council leaders.
The council action is being taken in order to discover the person who is behind the comments and it is hoped that Twitter [...]

Parents urged to have children vaccinated after measles outbreak

A dramatic increase in the number of reported measles cases has prompted a plea from the Health Protection Agency urging parents in England and Wales to have their children vaccinated against the disease.
Figures released by the Health Protection Agency show that there were 33 cases of measles reported in the first four months of [...]

Record hospital admissions level for alcohol related problems

A recent report released by the National Health Service Informational Centre has confirmed that the number of people being admitted into hospital with alcohol related problems has hit a new record level.
Data from the report show that in England admissions into hospital connected to alcohol use have now reached the one [...]

April sees higher than expected UK public borrowing

Many experts had expected UK borrowing to be around £6.5 billion for April but the figures reported by the Office for National Statistics turned out to be a lot more disappointing at £10 billion. The figures disclosed exclude the countries financial interventions which include such things as bail out amounts [...]

Mortgage Lending Fell in April

Mortgage lending fell in the month of April this year, according to recently released figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Lending fell as much as 14 percent from the previous month, though analysts remain uncertain as to the cause of this fairly extreme drop, taking into account the Easter and Royal Wedding bank holidays [...]

Air travel threatened again by volcanic ash cloud

Once again air travel across the UK seems to be coming under threat as another volcanic ash cloud has erupted into the skies over Iceland.
Volcanic matter started billowing into the skies over Iceland on Saturday after the Grimsvotn volcano, situated in the Vatnajokull National Park, started to erupt with clouds of [...]

Music firms to receive $105m settlement from Limewire

The long running legal battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Limewire looks as though it has finally come to an end as an out of court settlement has been agreed between the two parties.
The RIAA had been seeking one billion dollars from the Lime Group, the Limewire system developers, for [...]

Maths and English students must do better

A recent report by Professor Alison Wolf has shown her concern that too many 16 to 19 year old teenagers have inadequate basic skills when they leave school and warned that hundreds of thousands of these young people were in need of the basic skills in numeracy and literacy as was required by future [...]

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