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On Death Row: The poor hounds facing execution after captured of dog-fighting ... Mr Wartenberg founded the UK charity nine years ago after hearing of the illegal meat trade. It operates in the Far East as Animal Kingdom Foundation and employs 17 staff in the Philippines including 4 special investigators. The charity has since ...

Irish Team Comes to UK to Kickstart Coding for Children Coder Dojo, an international network of free computer clubs for children of all ages to learn programming co-founded in Ireland by a 19-year- old programmer, James Whelton, has not waited for politicians to take up the baton. Instead the first UK Dojo ...

Archbishop: Riots could happen again : The charity predicts that 500000 older people will spend Christmas alone this year. • Campaigner Beatrice Botomani, who has been honoured at Migration Yorkshire's Refugee of the Year awards. On our Northerner blog, Martin Wainwright reports that ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Londoners more loyal to London than UK : The average Londoner would need to triple their salary to £87000 to buy an average price property in the capital, according to a report launched Wednesday by the National Housing Federation. The Regional Funding Allocations (RFAs) were introduced to ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Australian church which sacked pro-gay marriage pastor “hardly Christian” : by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co. uk for PinkNews.co. uk Rev Matt Glover, a pastor who supports a marriage equality campaign for Christians, has been sacked from his position at a Baptist Church in Melbourne, the group Australian Marriage Equality says. ... PinkNews.co.uk

Call for global views on gay marriage before Scottish consultation closes : by Stephen Gray for PinkNews.co. uk The Equality Network is calling for equal marriage supporters to have their say in the government's public consultation on extending marriage rights to gay couples before Friday's deadline. Respondents do not have to ... PinkNews.co.uk

60000 petition Nigerian President not to sign anti-gay law : She said: “Instead of passing anti- gay laws, Nigeria needs to focus on repealing its sodomy laws, laws that were originally imposed by British colonialism.” AllOut.org co-founder Andre Banks, said: “The measure of every great democracy is how it treats ... PinkNews.co.uk

Archbishop: Riots could happen again : (thanks to Dawn Foster for sharing the link) • Better Mental Health in a Bigger Society? The pamphlet by Mark Brown and David Floyd (as previewed in Society daily last week) looks at how grassroots projects to help "people with mental health ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Chinese delegates visit council homes for inspiration : The experts came to visit Rosebery, a local housing association that manages 2500 homes in Epsom, to learn more about housing in the UK and apply its principles to develop more affordable homes in Shanghai. Housing expert Hongmin Zhang, Professor at ... 24dash (press release)

UK auditors warn that Olympic budget right on the edge as 2012 London Games ... LONDON — UK Olympic organizers run a risk of exceeding their 9.3 billion-pound ($14.6 billion) budget for hosting the 2012 London games and have little room left for unforeseen costs, Britain's spending watchdog warned Tuesday. ...

Londoners more loyal to London than UK : "The sense of pride and attachment that Londoners feel about their city is striking – though it is interesting that after London , it is to England and not the UK that most Londoners look," said IPPR associate director Guy Lodge. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

UK. London River Bus service threatened with closure : Hundreds of West London commuters face having to find a new way to get to work in the New Year, in the wake of a shock decision to close the river bus service between Putney, Chelsea and the City. If the closure goes ahead, people living in West London ... United Kingdom | Ireland

UK insurers urge restraint on top bankers' pay LONDON (AP) — UK banks should cut back on lavish pay for top executives, the Association of British Insurers urged Tuesday. The association, whose 300 members include major shareholders in banks, called for a fundamental review of pay and bonuses at ...

Poverty is not just about income : The JRF's most recent publication, Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011, not only warns against relying too heavily on the tax-and-benefit system to tackle poverty, but also cautions against focusing solely on child poverty. ... The Guardian (blog)

Shipping containers: could they tackle the housing crisis for a growing ... Of the 21.6 million households in England, one million social sector homes are rented by young singltons, with another 1.1 million in the private sector. With UK homeless charity Shelter predicting that as many as 35000 people could be homeless by ...

Poverty is not just about income Among children in Sweden growing up in single-parent families, the incidence of poverty is more than three times as high (24.7%) than those in families with two parents (8.1%) and, just as in the UK , children from non-intact families in comparison with ...

Rioters just criminals say police chiefs after unrest report ... out that three quarters of those dealt with by the courts already had criminal convictions. “Criminals explaining their own criminality , there is a slight irony there,” he told the Daily Mail. Sir Hugh Orde defends police tactics during UK riots.

Revealed: Plans for new £10m bus station and business district by Peter Law, South Wales Echo CARDIFF'S new bus station will open in the summer of 2014 at the heart of a new financial services district in the city centre, the Echo can today exclusively reveal. The capital's much maligned bus station will close in ...

Housing group's Hab Oakus venture with Kevin McCloud to air on Channel 4 The season highlights that while almost two million British families are currently on the waiting lists for social housing , one million properties lie empty across the UK , even though many cost huge amounts to keep secure. Housing group's Hab Oakus ...

Glasgow Man Arrested for Burglary : After arriving at the location and taking information, deputies were led to a nearby residence, where they made contact with the suspect, 49-year-old James A. Wade of Glasgow . Deputies say after further investigation, Wade admitted to the burglary, ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Could this be the start of a Big Pharma boom? : British labs are also involved in revolutionary new HIV drugs, aimed specifically at children, and scientists at University College London are working on a new treatment for spina bifida based on the chemical inositol, a vitamin-like substance also ... Telegraph.co.uk

Putney car scrap scheme raises £500000 for charity : The Putney-based Giveacar enables motorists to call the not-for-profit organisation, nominate any UK charity to receive the proceeds of their old banger, and have their car picked up from their home for free. The venture was started in January 2010 by ... United Kingdom | Ireland

The Great British Property Scandal : Such a property series has long since been overdue when you consider that there is a stacking 2.5 million people currently waiting on the social housing list, whilst 930000 properties are believed to be lying empty. Last night witnessed the opening ... United Kingdom | Ireland

First time buyers 'locked out' of Norfolk's housing market : Claire Astbury, the Federation's lead manager in east England , said: “It's sad but Norfolk has become un- affordable for the average, hard working person who has little realistic chance of buying their own house, triggering even greater demand for good ... Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

Babies born few weeks early 'more likely' to have behaviour problems "Therefore, moderately premature children could be a potential target group for the prevention of mental health problems, as behavioural and emotional problems in early childhood tend to persist in later childhood and adolescence. ...

Pension poverty levels 'set to increase' The number of individuals suffering from "pension poverty " in the UK is set to increase over the coming years as the impact of tightening budgets stops more people from adequately saving towards their retirement. UNISON's general secretary Dave Prentis ...

MPs 'must do more' to tackle elderly fuel poverty MPs have been urged to do more to tackle fuel poverty among elderly people in their area this winter by Age UK . MPs must take more action to tackle the "devastating effects" of winter fuel poverty, according to Age UK . The charity has called for MPs to ...

HSBC to cut 330 UK jobs The job cuts have been announced on the same day as HSBC was fined £10.5m by the FSA for misselling investment bonds to fund long-term care costs through subsidiary Nursing Homes Fees Agency to elderly customers. HSBC estimates that a further £29.3m in ...

David Cameron, the Queen and the rioters' sense of injustice "If you're going to smash somewhere up, go Chelsea or something like that," said an 18-year- old man who rioted in north London, one of many to complain that the riots had occured in the wrong places. "Go somewhere where it's got like, the richer people ...

Cardiff University conference on tackling hospital care for the elderley Other speakers included Professor David Oliver, National Clinical Director for Older People's Services, England . Ruth Marks, the Commissioner for Older People Wales, talked about the older person's experiences specifically in Welsh hospitals. ...

After Liverpool, the capital's heritage site is being inspected Liverpool is not the only UK city under threat of losing a world heritage designation, it emerged on Monday Unesco inspectors will visit London this week to check out developments around the Tower of London and the Palace of Westminster. ...

UK to push new medicines and open up NHS data By Ben Hirschler and Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said Monday it would promote use of new medicines and use a 180 million pounds ($280 million) fund to bring modern technologies to market under a package of reforms designed to attract ...

Campaign to boost treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder MPs are to consider his proposals during a Parliamentary debate on the treatment of soldiers' and veterans' mental health tomorrow. Mr Blower served in Kosovo in 2001 and was the gunner of a Challenger II tank in March 2003 when it was attacked at a ...

On Death Row: The poor hounds facing execution after captured of dog-fighting ... Mr Wartenberg founded the UK charity nine years ago after hearing of the illegal meat trade. It operates in the Far East as Animal Kingdom Foundation and employs 17 staff in the Philippines including 4 special investigators. The charity has since ...

Poundbury cereal firm donates £8000 to charities Dorset Cereals, based in Poundbury, gave a total of £8000 to five UK charities , including the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Weymouth who received £2000. Andy Sargent, coxswain at Weymouth RNLI lifeboat station, said: “As a charity, ...

11% of UK banknotes show cocaine traces Earlier last month, the report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction said that at least 4.8 percent of youths in the UK are estimated to have used cocaine over the last year, ranking the country the top in a league table of ...

Nominations For The National Diversity Awards Are Now Open There are several award categories including positive role model, community organisation and entrepreneurial of excellence awards which will be split into five categories including race, age, disability, gender and LGBT . You can also nominate for a ...

In Mainstream Media, Mental Health Still Taboo By Traci Pedersen Associate News Editor The subject of mental health is still not receiving the attention it deserves, according to the results of a survey released by the UK mental health charity Mind. Almost half - 45 percent - of the surveyed ...

Iran regime distances itself from UK embassy attack TEHRAN — Iran's regime has started to distance itself from militant protesters who stormed Britain's embassy, after seemingly being caught off balance by the retaliatory closure of its mission in London . Two senior clerics on the weekend sought to ...