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Charity Bank: 78% of Brits Don't Know Where Their Banks Invest Their Money TONBRIDGE -- Charity Bank today announces research findings which state that 78% of Britons don't know how or where their savings are invested. The research, conducted by Vision Critical, polled more than 2000 UK ...

Town 'one of worst' for abandoned dogs : By Katie Bond » SWINDON has been singled out by a dog's charity as being one of the worst places for dumped pooches. The Dogs Trust, the UK's largest dog welfare charity , has revealed that local authorities picked up about 345 stray dogs every day in ...

Reaction from the top down to NHS Reforms on the day the Health Bill looks set ... GPs have already got a poor record on mental health , who is going to protect the vulnerable groups? “It will cost £3 billion to implement these reforms. The best change would be to put the whole lot in the bin.” GERRY Moynihan, from Bordesley Green, ...

Rising Suicide Rate Can be Prevented: NHS Isle of Wight : In the UK suicide is second only to road traffic accidents as the most common cause of death for young people aged 15-25, and is the biggest killer of men under 40 who are more likely to die from suicide. Free mental health first aid training is being ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Disabled people rely on travel concessions : I am sure the relations/friends that are being visited wouldn't mind chipping in the £2.00 to enable a well loved disabled/ elderly relative to come visit them? Or is this the duty of the state? Further, I notice the term UK is being used. ... The Guardian

Actors' union to ask gay members about homophobia : by Jessica Geen for PinkNews.co. uk -- Equity, the union for actors and performers, is to ask its LGBT members whether they feel safe being out and if they have suffered prejudice.

Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games seeks head of media : The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games organising committee is to create the new role of head of media, a role that will see it implement co-ordinated communication and media strategies. The committee has begun the recruitment process to fill the role ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Prison must be made to work : If that happened, there would be no excuse for prisoners not learning new skills, or kicking their drug addiction , so they can lead a crime-free existence on their eventual release back into society, and presumably when they have shown that they can be ... United Kingdom | Ireland

£40m cocaine smuggling gang convicted : ... were all convicted of being concerned in the supply of cocaine in Scotland, England and Spain. Blenkinsop was also convicted of being involved in the supply of cannabis and amphetamines while Harkins was found guilty of supplying amphetamines. ... BBC News

Black Mental Health UK launches The Solution magazine | OBV : Care services Minister Paul Burstowe MP has endorsed a new digital magazine entitled ‘The Solution’, which is set to transform the debate on ethnicity and mental healthcare. Launched by the campaigns group Black Mental Health UK, this publication aims to mainstreams one of the most marginalised areas of healthcare. United Kingdom | Ireland

Prawase: Act now to avoid civil strife : Thai society must act to offset the threat of civil war over the mishandling of two key issues, the monarchy and the controversy surrounding former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, senior citizen Prawase Wasi advised on Wednesday. ... Bangkok Post

Strictly controversial people in UK dance show I broke my ankle in January and I thought, really I should try, and if I can do it, then it might encourage other people who have had injuries or accidents -- especially older people like myself -- that they should get out of the chair and start ...

WaterAid responds to monsoon floods in Pakistan : International charity WaterAid is taking urgent action to help 6000 people affected ... people have taken temporary shelter and prevent waterborne diseases, ...

Victory for right to defend your property as florist, 72, will NOT face ... By Julian Gavaghan An elderly flower shop owner arrested on suspicion of stabbing an armed robber to death during a gunpoint raid will not face any charges, it emerged today. In what will be viewed by many as another victory for the right to defend ...

Half of charity shops turn to eBay to to get higher prices for their second ... The website most commonly used is eBay, which is used by 94 per cent of charities selling online. This includes 31 per cent of of charities who sell items on their own websites. The auction site said that UK charities had raised £4.6m in 2010 by ...

Combat stress: 50000 British veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan 'to develop ... The estimates are based on official Ministry of Defence figures which show that 191,690 British soldiers have been deployed personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Some 50,000 of these have seen action in both war zones.

Millions Homeless After Floods Hit Pakistan | Orange UK : "Another miserable experience for the luckless and doubtless least well off who are now homeless too. Time for the millions of UK aid monies to Pakistan to be ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Nursing home killer sentenced to life in prison : There was no dispute during the trial that Stewart shot seven residents and one nurse at Pinelake Health & Rehabilitation Center on March 29, 2009. However, Stewart's lawyers argued he was mentally ill and had been taking four to 12 times a prescribed ... McKnight's Long Term Care News

Childcare costs force poorest families into debt : Sally Copley, head of poverty at Save the Children, said: "The government is undermining its own 'make work pay' policy by not funding the costs of childcare for the poorest families. "Childcare in the UK is among the most expensive in the world, ... The Guardian

Business folk take a stroll for charity : A group of business people are putting down their briefcases and donning their walking boots in aid of a charity that runs a drop-in service for homeless people in Basingstoke. The intrepid walkers hope to complete the 34-mile St Swithun's Way ... United Kingdom | Ireland

UK police make fresh arrest in phone hacking case : LONDON , Sept 7 (Reuters) - British police arrested a man over suspected phone hacking in an early morning raid on Wednesday, the 16th person detained in a scandal centred on the News of the World tabloid, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Disabled people rely on travel concessions : Coach company National Express had 3 million passengers using the scheme last year alone: the disabled and elderly who are unable to drive, or who cannot afford expensive train fares. These passengers benefit from concessionary fares for travelling ... The Guardian

Inmate testing called failure : Rehabilitation programs took a $69 million budget cut in the last fiscal year, curbing the length and variety of treatments available in California prisons . California Watch is a project of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Cervical cancer mum urges Liverpool girls to be vaccinated She is now supporting Liverpool primary care trust's campaign to give girls the HPV vaccine to protect them against the disease. She is also determined her daughter Keira will have the vaccine when she is old enough. Mrs Oliver went though pioneering ...

England riots: The feast of fools? : Kenneth Clarke's analysis of last month's riots in England amounts to a ... Ken Clarke today draws a tentative link between the riots and social exclusion . ... BBC News

Senate body joins Malik bashing : ... the mouthpiece of US, UK and NATO forces and was taking dictation from them. ... 1600 Pakistanis including 450 people on charges of drug trafficking and ...

Today's Lady News: Lesbian Representative Tammy Baldwin Runs For ... : If elected, Baldwin would become the nation's first openly gay senator. [Pink News UK Rep. Michele Bachmann said this weekend that she would confront the ... The Frisky

Kenneth Clarke proposes 'radical changes' to penal system : Proposals to engage prisoners in work programmes were generally welcomed by rehabilitation charities and prisoner groups. Mark Johnson, ex-offender and founder of the rehabilitation charity User Voice, said he agreed in theory, but was concerned about ... Channel 4 News

Black Mental Health UK launches The Solution magazine | OBV : Government figures show that in the past five years, forced detention and medication of people under the Mental Health Act has doubled for the UK's African ... United Kingdom | Ireland

British Charity Network Drops Christian Group for Offering Prayer : In order to protect the integrity of both organizations it was amicably agreed that CAP would not continue to be a Advice UK member." CAP, a national charity network of 160 churches, had been apart of the Advice UK network for six years. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Stigma haunts HIV/AIDS widows | Panos London : In Manipur, northeast India, HIV / AIDS has spread from injecting drug users to their wives and children- Paul Smith / Panos Pictures. I met an HIV-positive woman ...

Freddie Mercury: The man behind Queen : He included a link to Freddieforaday.com, a fundraising campaign dedicated to eliminating AIDS and HIV worldwide. For more tech news, sign up for the weekly BizTech newsletter, which ships every Wednesday. Christian Science Monitor

Major UK festival to celebrate Shakespeare : AP LONDON -- More than a million tickets for an international festival celebrating William Shakespeare as "the world's playwright" will go on sale next month. Organizers of the World Shakespeare Festival said Tuesday it will include 70 productions and ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Businessman among four jailed in £17m international fraud case : A Glasgow businessman is among four people jailed for their part in a £17m VAT fraud. Shabir Anwar Ahmed, 53, was sentenced to four years in prison and disqualified from being a company director after being found guilty of conspiring to steal ... stv.tv

Economic tummy ache: Our stomach upsets cost British industry 11 million lost ... Symptoms of so-called infectious intestinal disease(IID) generally amount to relatively mild vomiting or diarrhoea, however there are fatalities among the elderly and vulnerable. The research, conducted by experts at the University of Manchester, ...

Dog walker indecently assaulted : A 40-year-old woman has been indecently assaulted while walking her dogs in the west end of Glasgow at the weekend. The woman was grabbed from behind, pushed against a wall and attacked, in Scotstoun Street, near Fore Street, in the Whiteinch area at ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Insight: Dismal summer for teen jobs may scar young Americans : In some poverty -stricken communities, social workers worry that with nothing to do and no options to earn money, some teens will turn to crime. That's a particular worry for towns like Newburgh, which has long struggled with poverty and violence. ... Reuters

UK's Osborne Promises To Stay The Course On Austerity : LONDON (Dow Jones)-- UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will Tuesday vow to stick to his ambitious plan to cut Britain's budget deficit, despite mounting pressure in recent days for the plan to be adapted to take account of the slowing ... United Kingdom | Ireland