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Educator gets doctorate from Welsh university : Doug Olena, adjunct professor of philosophy at Evangel University, was recently conferred a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cardiff University in Cardiff , Wales . Olena's dissertation is titled "Foucault, Critique, and the Emergence of a Postmodern ...

Cattle passport stickers to monitor TB testing in Wales : Controversial plans for a badger cull in west Wales were put on hold in June while the review is conducted. After the sticker scheme was piloted in north Wales , the Carmarthen and Cardiff Regional TB Eradication Boards agreed to implement the scheme in ... BBC News

University applications from UK-born students fall 15% : Ministers need to up their game, and should launch a campaign in the new year to ensure that older students understand the new loan system and the opportunities available." The latest figures do not show whether those from low-income families have been ... The Guardian

How can UK switch to an export-led growth economy? : Carson would like the UK government to, as in Germany, France and even ailing Spain, fund the training of engineering graduates to a standard where they are employable. "It saddens me to see people with engineering degrees driving cabs or stacking ...

Music charity seeks sponsors : One of the UK's leading music charities , it delivers a large range of music making opportunities for young people across the South East region. Since 1999, Rhythmix has worked with more than 40000 young people, enabling their creative activity through ...

Manchester design students launch charitable venture : By supporting Cancer Research UK , the charity's logo will appear on the designs. The association has enabled PiccoPrint to secure free printing from a Manchester based printers therefore limiting each team-member's financial investment into the ... United Kingdom | Ireland

TCP and Homebase sleep rough for charity : They joined 650 other fundraising 'sleepers' in London's Exchange Square to experience something of the discomfort endured by homeless people every night. Centrepoint is the UK's leading charity for homeless young people, providing housing and support ... Lighting

Number of charity shops 'has risen by nearly 30 per cent' : By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 28 November 2011 The number of charity shops in the UK has grown by 28.5 per cent in the last three years, according to data released last week by the Local Data Company, which collects information on retail ...

Waste campaign charity set to close : Pollution and waste lobby group Environmental Protection UK (EPUK) could be wound up next March due to dwindling income from cash-strapped councils, it has been revealed. In a statement, EPUK said that unless its members came forward at an ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Gap between British pupils' social mobility is worst in the world The findings reinforce the conclusion of Ofsted last week that poverty is a 'significant factor influencing the quality of schools'. On most measures, the statistics for social mobility in Britain were found to be worse than every other country in the ...

Great Baddow teenager gives youth voice at parliament : Mudiwa Madziwa, a 14-year- old Sandon School pupil, represents young people in the Chelmsford area in the UK Young Parliament. She is halfway through her two-year term as a young MP, and was one of six from Essex to join more than 200 from across the ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Don't let elderly be left in the cold : Age Concern UK in the county is urging people to follow advice to help protect older people as part of a campaign being launched called Keep The Cold Out. Last winter a total of 362 elderly people in Northamptonshire died from causes relating to the ... Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph

UK Stocks Climb as Debt-Crisis Concern Eases; RBS, BP Advance : Even if the euro-area economy enters a recession, UK stocks can surge as London -listed shares only sell 15 percent of sales into Europe, Gareth Evans and Michael Biggs wrote in a report. About $4.6 trillion has been wiped out from global equity values ... United Kingdom | Ireland

UK House Prices Decline for Seventh Month, Hometrack Says 28 (Bloomberg) -- UK house prices dropped for a seventh month in November, property researcher Hometrack Ltd. said, while bankers in London's financial district expect bonuses to shrink by about a fifth from last year as the sovereign-debt crisis ...

Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson Concert Company Goes Bust : The company behind Michael Jackson's tribute concert in Cardiff , Wales last month (Oct11) has gone into administration after falling into debt. Michael Forever - The Tribute Concert was held at the city's Millennium Stadium in October (11) and featured ... Contactmusic.com

Care in Community : SOME years ago a relative with severe mental health problems was found wandering the streets unwashed and half starved, one more victim of Thatcher's horrendous legislation called 'kick em out'. No sorry it was called Care in the Community. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Students learn about how to stay healthy : Seventeen health-related agencies visited the college and set up stands covering a variety of topics, including healthy food, alternative therapies, housing, anti-social behaviour, mental health , substance abuse, and exercise. Health and social care ... Portsmouth News

Gap between British pupils' social mobility is worst in the world The 'education gap' between the UK's most and least privileged pupils is larger than it is elsewhere in the world. And the divergence starts even before children start school, according to the study by the Sutton Trust, with the poorest children ...

UK to put up 365 red ribbons for World AIDS Day : (AP) - Representatives with the University of Kentucky's Health Services will place 365 red ribbons in front of the school's main building to represent the number of Kentuckians infected each year with HIV . The ceremony is set for 8 am EST Monday at ...

SignHealth charity bringing food and drink festival to Beaconsfield : By Lawrence Dunhill » A MAJOR Christmas food and drink festival is coming to Beaconsfield this week to raise cash for charity . The Great British Christmas Festival of Food and Drink will be held on the council green on December 2 and 3, organised by ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Life-changing charity gets £80k boost : ... which offers one of the largest range of equine products and services in the UK . The money, raised during 2011, was awarded to the charity during a special event at Countrywide's new head offices in Evesham, attended by RDA and Countrywide staff, ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Liverpool to mark 10 years since George Harrison's death by Jade Wright, Liverpool Echo Across three events tomorrow, the city will commemorate the former Beatle, who died of lung cancer on November 29, 2001. “ Liverpool will pay a special musical tribute to its beloved son throughout the day,” said organiser ...

Liverpool GP Rob Barnett condemns demands for strike day sick notes by Liza Williams, Liverpool Echo A LIVERPOOL doctor today accused employers of “crass stupidity” for forcing staff to get sick notes on the day of action. Rob Barnett, chair of the city's Local Medical Committee (LMC), said GPs were concerned their ...

The real benefits of special care for the elderly : ... Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine' is available from Telegraph Books for £14.99 plus £1.25 p&p. To order, call 0844 871 1515 or visit books.telegraph.co. uk Patients benefit from being assessed by a physician specialising in the ' care of the elderly . Telegraph.co.uk

Charity helping to spread festive cheer : A CHARITY in York is looking for businesses to host Christmas parties for the elderly . Employee-volunteering charity York Cares is looking for people to spend their lunch hours with residents of 15 different elderly people's homes during the course of ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Gary Speed found dead: football unites in grief and to pay tribute to Wales ... By Chris Bascombe The 42 year- old's death caused disbelief across all levels of the game, with the two venues that hosted Sunday's Premier League's fixtures reflecting the sense of shock. There were emotional scenes at Swansea's Liberty Stadium as a ...

Hospital guide: death rates 10 per cent higher at weekends : The new study, disclosed today in The Daily Telegraph, also finds that hospitals are making a third of elderly people who suffer broken hips in falls wait too long for operations. Those who are admitted at weekends are more likely to face delays. ... Telegraph.co.uk

Why the simple things are so important to patients, by Hillingdon Hospital ... Age UK Hillingdon's chief executive, Chris Commerford, underlined this point. "Members of staff need to blow the whistle on colleagues who are not acting as they should,” she says. “It is totally unacceptable that elderly patients aren't respected. ...

Building a way out of the housing crisis : However, the government still has a part to play if the co-op housing sector is to flourish, for example through tax relief or long-term low-cost loan stock. Given the ideology of the present coalition, investment in social housing seems to be a no-no. ...

Kaleidoscope: act now to support the campaign against Russian anti-gay laws : We have already raised the case in person with the Foreign Office and urged the government to use its influence and the UK's chairmanship of the Council of Europe to raise the St Petersburg case at every opportunity. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Over-50s are the 'generous generation' : The generosity comes despite older people making significant cutbacks in their own lives. Saga found that a third of over-50s are heating their homes less as a result of rising energy prices. Four in ten are using their cars less and three in ten are ... Telegraph.co.uk

KGB agent killed by polonium tea still thorn in Russia-UK ties : Five years since the death of Russian former security agent Alexander Litvinenko in the UK . The diplomatic spat it triggered between Moscow and London shows no signs of letting up. And as RT's Laura Smith reports, the course of juctice isn't running ...

Can the London Olympics 2012 be the catalyst needed to get the nation active? : With the London Olympics 2012 being held in London in the UK next year, it is an opportunity to whip up the nation in a frenzy of getting active. However, Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller believes this is an opportunity that is being missed. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Andrew Mitchell says UK support for LGBT rights will not lead to cuts ... At a meeting today with the Kaleidoscope Trust and other groups, the Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, reaffirmed the...

SAfrican lottery tickets for HIV tests : South Africa's Western Cape province is to offer people who agree to get tested for HIV a lottery ticket which could earn them $US6,000 ($A6,186.52), in the latest move by politicians to raise awareness about AIDS . The announcement came ahead of World ...

China seeks to invest in UK infrastructure : The British government is looking to UK pension funds and sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Asia to help finance upgrades of roads, railways, ports and social housing . George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, wants to find ...

Crunch Time Is Coming for UK's Green Commitment : By BETH GARDINER LONDON — Britain has some big decisions to make on energy, and environmentalists say the answers that politicians come up with in the next few months will determine whether the country follows through on its promises of strong action ...

Riding charity delivers unique opportunities : First founded in 1969 the organisation has grown to now encompass more than 500 different local groups across the UK , helping some 30000 people. The Malvern Hills RDA branch is one of the most well-established, having been going for about 30 years. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Greyhound charity encourages Somerset people to adopt : A GREYHOUND rescue charity is appealing for older people to help rehome a dog so they can go grey together. The common image of a greyhound is of a dog rushing around a racetrack after a hare, but Greyhound Rescue West of England says that outside ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Mail service boost for charity shops : RUSHDEN'S Cancer Research UK Shop is to benefit from a new partnership with UK Mail's new ipostparcels service. A new campaign allows ipostparcel customers to donate unwanted and used items easily when booking a collection through the new service at ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Burnley charity raises £50000 : Fund-raisers from UK Charity Aid, based in St James's Street, have clocked up the huge total in just five months since it was formed in June. The organisation, which supports charities such as Help for Heroes, Barnardo's and Christie Hospital, ... Burnley Express

Newcastle Council to give strikers' pay to charity CHARITIES are pleading with council moneymen to follow a UK first by one North authority and hand over strikers' wages to voluntary groups. Newcastle Council has pledged to hand over the wages it saves as a result of Wednesday's national strike ...