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Many workers afraid to disclose mental health problems : “The majority of people with poor mental health continue to attend work and report that it can impact on their ability to concentrate, make good decisions and provide effective customer service. It is estimated that this presenteeism costs UK ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Targeted back care 'better and cheaper' : The researchers excluded patients with any pain caused by serious disease (including those mentioned above), those with serious medical illnesses or mental health conditions, pregnant women and people currently receiving non-GP management of their back ...

Mind launches mental health guide for employers Mental health charity Mind has published a guide to help managers deal with the growing problem of mental health issues revealed in a recent survey. By Helen Mayson According to research into mental health issues in the UK , less than half of workers ...

The cost of poor mental health at work : Research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development finds one in four of the UK workforce have experienced a mental health problem during employment. However, too few employers are taking positive steps to manage this increasingly ... The Guardian (blog)

Milborne bereavement charity needs your support : By Joanna Davis » A Dorchester mum is urging residents and businesses to support a specialist Dorset charity that is struggling to survive. Staff at children's bereavement charity Mosaic have launched an appeal to raise £10000£10000 so they can keep ...

New plan to boost corporate giving : But we are still far behind the United States, where the charitable impulse is more deeply ingrained. "In the US, charitable donations run at 212 billion dollars (£136 billion) a year - proportionately almost double the UK's . ...

Patients to give views on mental health care : MENTAL health patients will be asked what they think about their care in an ambitious project thought to be the first in the UK . Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust wants to get an accurate picture of how people receiving community ...

More than 20000 Cardiff homes at risk of flooding by Peter Law MORE than 21000 homes in Cardiff are at risk of flooding, a new flood map shows. The Environment Agency Wales (EAW) map shows which parts of the city would be at risk in a one-in-100-year river flood or a one-in-200-year tidal flood. ...

Funding on offer to Northumberland groups for the elderly County council bosses want to hear from voluntary and community groups with projects that would help elderly people access a wider range of services and develop better social networks. The one-year fund is designed to support four projects, ...

The top USA LGBT stories of 2011 PinkNewscouk : We've already brought you the weirdest and most unexpected stories of 2011 as well as the most important UK stories of 2011, now we bring you the most ...

Police investigate two north Glasgow shootings : Police are investigating two shootings which occurred within three miles of each other to the north of Glasgow . The first attack was at about 02:00 on Christmas Eve in Galloway Street in Springburn. A 36-year-old man was seriously wounded. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has caring side revealed in new TV show Gaelic channel BBC Alba's King Kenny – Sgeulachd Dalglish (Dalglish's Story) on Wednesday night looks back at the life of the former Celtic, Liverpool and Scotland striker. But it also highlights his charity work with his wife Marina in the Western ...

Helping out abandoned kids : Eve, aged 57, from Crewe, is the national co-ordinator for the SunShine project, a charity that helps children in Egypt. This year all her gifts were bought through easyfundraising.org. uk . The website gives a percentage of each sale to charities , ...

Efforts to get more people online stalled : Age UK charity service director Helena Herklots stated: “The web can help boost finances and tackle isolation by things like saving money on shopping and keeping in touch with loved ones more easily, so it's great that over four million older people ... Broadband Expert (blog)

Events that rocked UK in year 2011 LONDON : The British love history, but many would rather forget the vicissitudes of 2011, the year that started on a sombre note but ended with more bad news about economic downturn, the London riots and the phone-hacking row. Perhaps the only feel-good ...

First-time buyers at lowest level since 1976 : The average price paid for a house in Scotland this year was £105624, compared with £240768 in Greater London . When the bank's economists calculated the top ten most affordable areas in the UK by comparing house prices with earnings, they found that ... Scotsman

Retailers hope for surge in profits as sales begin on Boxing Day by Thomas Pascoe, South Wales Echo RETAILERS across Cardiff are hoping for a surge in profits today as shoppers flock to the Boxing Day sales. Several businesses in the capital reported increased sales in the period leading up to Christmas after a slow ...

Abandoned tin and granite communities have created our modern ghost towns But the work of an amateur Welsh historian has inspired The Times Atlas to launch a campaign to preserve the memory of the forgotten town and villages of Wales . Cardiff -based Stephen Fisk – creator of the Abandoned Communities website – said there is ...

Californians to Watch: Matthew Cate directs prison downsizing : As realignment takes hold next year, Cate wants to remake the prison system "instead of taking the same model and just making it smaller." So look for him to press for more money for inmate education and rehabilitation . He wants to take back control ... Fresno Bee

Depression: The struggle for awareness in men : This is why the Government is investing around £400 million over four years to ensure that adults with depression and anxiety in all parts of England have access to a choice of psychological therapies. “The mental health strategy makes it clear there ... Mancunian Matters

Brazil overtakes UK as sixth biggest economy as Britain falls behind a South ... In the middle of a prolonged economic downturn and dragged into the euro crisis because of its trade relations with the Continent, the UK has also been involved in an unseemly spat with France. London has come under sustained attack from French ...

Upbeat message to invest even in the toughest times : GLASGOW restaurateur and bar owner Alan Tomkins is pursuing a strategy of investing heavily in his venues in the city in spite of pressure on profit margins from an extremely tough economic backdrop. Mr Tomkins, a former chairman of the Glasgow ... United Kingdom | Ireland

250000 over-75s spent Christmas Day alone : If repeated across the population, this equates to nearly 250000 over-75s alone for Christmas, said the CSJ - even though the same survey found that a large majority of the elderly (77%) have children living in the UK . And the poll found that on ... Mirror.co.uk

Where the mornings taste grey: living under a cloud of smog in Beijing As education levels rise and access to information improves, the old methods no longer work. Simply telling the people that there are more "blue-sky days" when every morning they awake feeling like they've smoked a box of Monte Cristos no longer washes ...

A ray of light for Scots film ... without Nessie or Neds : The 43-year-old film producer, Glasgow born and bred, goes to the cinema just like the rest of us. She's seen films about Glasgow gangs and Glaswegian alcoholics. She's seen movies about the Loch Ness monster. Some she's liked, some she hasn't. ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Most UK Employees Still Afraid to Disclose a Mental Health Problem ... The survey of 2000 UK workers reveals that despite more than a quarter (26%) of employees having experienced a mental health problem while in employment, ...

Archbishop of York attacks bankers' 'massive bonuses' Dr John Sentamu said: 'We have created a situation where many people live in relative poverty while others have far more than they can ever hope to spend.' Dr John Sentamu said: "Let us not be a society that knows the price of everything and value of ...

Poverty crisis as cuts hit families Private rents UK -wide have risen by £25 a month on average in the last year. Mr Hibbert said many people without a home were sleeping on friends' sofas and not included in official homelessness figures. He added: “I think there are more sofa surfers ...

Half Of The Country Is Struggling Economically In other words, it expands our understanding of what constitutes poverty beyond merely income. From The Poverty Site (an UK site) the indicators that are measured in determining an individual's or household's level of poverty are those factors related ...

Pensioners' thanks for festive hamper gifts ... poured in from pensioners facing Christmas alone or in poverty . More individuals, schools and businesses than ever before have given a helping hand to hundreds of older people registered to receive charity food parcels from Age UK Peterborough. ...

MSPs to reject UK welfare reform bill ... makes work pay and lifts people out of poverty however this approach is being fundamentally undermined by the UK government's deep and damaging cuts to benefits and services that will impact on some of the most vulnerable people in Scotland. ...

Study: UK homeless die 30 years younger Amid the economic recession and increasing job losses, homelessness in the UK is on the rise. And while the winter here has been relatively mild so far, it's likely to get colder soon. A winter, that some will not survive.

Festive fair raises money for homeless A CHARITY for the homeless is to benefit from cash raised at a Christmas fair at Bulwell Academy. Students at the school have pledged the money to Framework because users of the charity have been working as mentors with pupils since September on ...

Homeless man is holding peaceful Christmas vigil A MAN who is homeless and without benefits since returning to Eastbourne from Australia earlier this year is holding a 48-hour vigil over Christmas to highlight his plight. Steve Morman arrived back in England in October after living in Australia for ...

Homeless charity Crisis offers 'Christmas sanctuary' It comes as, for the first time in a decade, the number of homeless people is on the rise. Last year, almost 4000 people slept rough on the streets of London. For Charles Lasalle, 29, this is the first Christmas he has had no home. ...

70000 Children will Wake up Homeless on Christmas day By International Business Times | Nearly 70000 children in the UK are set to wake up on Christmas morning homeless in temporary accommoda-tion, according to a new report. The government figures highlighted by ...

Charity food hampers for homeless in Teesside and County Durham Its aim, is to raise money for people who are less fortunate and is helped by organisations in other parts of the North East of England like the Salvation Army, in Sunderland, and the People's Kitchen, in Newcastle. Another charity which is picking up ...

Sign up and help charity The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is calling on people in Derbyshire to sign up for a fundraising pack and support the charity during February - National Heart Month. There's a really easy and fun way to help and go Red for Heart by joining in Wear ...

Prince Phillip 'getting better' and 'in good spirits' after heart scare Dr Simon Davies, consultant intervention cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London , said Philip may have been on the verge of a heart attack or might actually have suffered one before the stenting procedure was performed. ...

Tidworth charity's gift from Wiltshire Council The action of the town's people gained international recognition, with US President Barack Obama describing it as the "best of British character". And in October Wootton Bassett became the first town in more than 100 years to get the "Royal" prefix. ...

Kate Middleton joins Royal Family at Christmas Day church service as Prince ... By Ann Gripper -Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton has joined the Royal Family for their traditional Christmas morning church service at Sandringham - but Prince Philip was missing for the first time. The 90-year- old was fitted ...

Brazilian social housing fund pounces because the time has come The MCMV initiative, (which translates as My House, My Life) is one of the biggest social housing projects in history, generating more than €65 billion in ...

Europe's welfarism put to test Europe's approach, focusing on reducing social benefits and services, without substantial programmes to combat poverty , is likely to increase poverty , exclusion and inequality in the EU, the European Anti Poverty Network warned in a recent paper. ...

London 2012: Celtic trio invited to Great Britain football squad By Sportsbeat 11:40am UK , Sunday 25 December, 2011 Celtic's Scott Brown, James Forrest and Adam Matthews have all been formally invited to represent Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics. Welshman Matthews, 19, and 20-year-old Forrest both meet the ...

Cannabis Law Reform Politician comes out TOPS in Online Poll Getting cannabis accepted into mainstream politics is lets face it, just a pipe dream. But a politician who is campaigning for cannabis reforms in the UK says we should 'think again', and has won a 'Top Politician' award for his work. ...