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| Chef Gordon Ramsay has called for legislation to ban restaurants from selling fruit and vegetables which are out of season. Ramsay said he wanted to see home-grown produce on menus not asparagus in December or Kenyan strawberries in March. “When we haven’t got it take it off the menu,” he said. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel - May 9th 2008 |
| A Travel agent has been named the cheapest place to convert foreign currency, offering better value than banks and the Post Office. Which? said First Choice offered the best deals for holidaymakers looking to buy $500, charging a total of £260.42. Marks & Spencer came in second place, charging £260.69, followed by HSBC at £261.10. Thomas Cook was the most expensive, with consumers paying £274.73. | |
| Travel/Tourism | The Sentinel - June 25th 2008 |
| Liverpool, home to names from Cilla Black to The Beatles, has been named the nation’s most musical city. Ten cities have been competing over six weeks for the title, voted for by the public. Liverpool, this year’s European Capital of Culture, scooped the top spot followed by Sheffield, birth place of Artic Monkeys and Pulp. Manchester, whose acts include Oasis and The Smiths came third. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel - June 17th 2008 |
| The Government has been condemned by a leading charity for its treatment of the elderly. Figures revealed by Help The Aged show that almost two-thirds of the population believes that the Government does not take pensioners’ needs seriously. Spokesman Kate Jopling said legislation should be introduced to put ageism on an equal footing with racism and sexism. | |
| The Elderly | The Sentinel - May 9th 2008 |
| Equality Minister Harriet Harmen today plans to encourage firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minorities job candidates. The new Equalities Bill is also expected to force employers to disclose salary structures in a bid to make the pay gap between men and women more transparent. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel - June 26th 2008 |
| The government said pilot schemes testing micro-chipped wheelie bins will go ahead even though one council which tried out the technology scrapped it after it “failed to work”. The micro-chips enable bins to be weighed by the refuse lorry so the amount each household recycles and throws away can be checked. South Norfolk Council became the first in England to use the scheme which it introduced in 2002. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel - June 17th 2008 |
| UK households are throwing out £10 billion of edible food every year, a study revealed today. The average household throws out one third of all food bought, wasting £420 each year or £610 for those with children, the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap) said. The figure is £2 billion higher than previously estimated, the report said. The Government described the figures as “staggering” and “shocking”. | |
| Food and Drink | The Sentinel - May 8th 2008 |
| Prisoners with a history of domestic violence are still being awarded early release a year after the problem was first highlighted, it was claimed today. The probation union Napo said not enough checks were being carried out on inmates being freed up to 18 days early under the “end of custody licence” scheme. Early release is not meant to be available for violent offenders but Napo said wife beaters were slipping through the net. Union spokesmen Harry Fletcher said: “The scheme was introduced quickly and is flawed. Men convicted of offences of domestic violence are being let out without any accommodation check and returning to their partners’ addresses.” | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - June 27th 2008 |
| A prison with “fundamental problems” was today accused of making up figures relating to a key performance target. The Chief Inspector Of Prisons, Anne Owers, said the amount of time inmates at Leeds jail were reported to be spending out of their cells was “simply fictional”. Prison managers were submitting figures based on what should be taking place, rather than what was actually happening, she said. The 1,000-inmate jail recorded that prisoners were out of cells for nine hours a day. But the chief inspector’s report noted: “The most time a prisoner in full-time work could spend out of cell was eight hours.” | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - June 24th 2008 |
| Currys and PC World owner DSG International is to shrink the size of it’s Currys.digital estate in a bid to revive the buisness. The group said it will not renew leases on around 77 of the chain’s 177 stores when they expire within the next four to five years. DSG has already issued two profit warnings this year. | |
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| The savings people can make by buying their own home rather than renting one have nearly doubled on the back of house price falls, research showed today. People would pay out an average of £10,500 less if they bought a property over 25 years rather than rented one, according to Abbey - £426,303 on average compared with £436,789. | |
| Housing | The Sentinel - June 27th 2008 |
| Ikea has recalled a baby sleeping bag because of the risk a child could choke on the zip. Two customers who bought the Barnslig sleeping bag have said the zip bottom stop has detached from the zip during use. This means the zip slider could come off and present a choking hazard to small children although no injuries have been reported. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 24th 2008 |
| A species of shrimp has supersensitive eyes that can literally see “over the rainbow” scientists have discovered. The mantris shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has an appreciation of colour far superior to that of humans. Instead of three primary colours – red, yellow and blue – they recognise 11 or 12. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel May 14th 2008 |
| 55% of Britain’s young adults believe the Bible is irrelevant to the modern world, although many believe it to be great work of literature. The figure was revealed by a Bible Society survey, which also discovered that 39% of 18-24 year olds do not believe the Bible is true. 44% disagreed that the Bible ‘champions the cause of the poor and the marginalised.’ | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Youthwork - August 2008 |
| “Shameless”-style parenting is becoming the norm in many parts of Britain, Conservatives were warning today. Too many mothers and fathers do not know what good parenting is and follow the example of Frank Gallagher, the feckless father in the hit Channel 4 comedy, shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling was expected to say | |
| Family | The Sentinel May 14th 2008 |
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