Middlesbrough is ‘worst place to be a girl in England and Wales.’
A new study has ranked Middlesbrough as the worst place to be a girl. Charity Plan International UK took various factors into account to make the decision. They assessed child poverty, educational attainment and teen pregnancy rates. Sadly for Middlesbrough it came top of the list, not an enviable place to be. As expected there appears to be a north/south divide between the best and worst places to be a young female. Poverty could be seen as a major factor...
Seven-day NHS ‘impossible’ as health service reaches breaking point
The NHS is at breaking point and the Conservative Government’s dream of a seven-day NHS will not work unless there is a huge injected of funds, which is unlikely to be sanctioned. Chris Hopson, boss of NHS Providers has a vey bleak assessment of the public sector health service in the UK. He said the NHS was “increasingly failing to do the job it wans to do, and the public needs it to do, through no fault of its own.”...
Humans Have Destroyed 10% of Earth’s Wilderness Since 1992
Humans have destroyed ten per cent of the Earth's wilderness since 1992, according to new research. The study, authored by researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland and published in Cell, revealed that the earth has lost nearly 1.3 million square miles of wilderness (defined as areas that are largely free of human development) in less than 30 years, with most of this loss occurring in South America. This leaves approximately 11.6 million square miles of wilderness left on Earth (accounting for about 23...
Alex Lodge: Weekly Report Vol. 50
By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two. Happy Monday people. We’re back on track with back to back weeks for the first time in a long time. This week we start with some impossibly cool French jazz-funk from Cortex, moving into fuzzy electronica from Kutmah and some funk from The Jimmy Castor Bunch. Some Polish Afrobeat is next, and after that we have a track from...
Why We Need A Better Debt Solution For Millions
By Angela Clements, CEO & Founder, Fair for You In 2014, in the world of unsecured personal credit, there were few offering credit to those people on low incomes, and who have to take credit and pay it back each week or fortnight; people who can’t get credit from their banks or building society. Most of those providers charged what most of us would consider to be high interest rates, high fees and inflated prices for the items, which would keep...
Watch: London Luton to get £110 million Revamp
London Luton Airport is set to get a £110 million revamp to increase capacity 50 per cent to 18 million passengers per year by 2020. The airport has already opened a new security search area and a £1 million executive lounge, with new developments bring a 1,700 space multi-storey car park with a covered walkway to the terminal is due to open this winter. The airport is also doubling the size of its shopping and dining area for passengers with a...
How Corporate Partnerships Are Changing The Charity Landscape
By Janelle Butterfield, Macmillan Cancer Support Companies teaming up with charities is by no mean a new endeavour, but as the market becomes ever busier and more competitive, non-for-profits are demonstrating the value of aligning with them by proposing more partnerships with a cross sector service element to extend reach whilst helping their corporate friends understand and engage key audiences. On a basic level, partnerships with charities are a great way to boost staff morale – particularly if times are uncertain. With...
Oasis/ Blur Amnesty Launched by Pizza Pilgrims
After years of rivalry, an Oasis/ Blur amnesty finally looks in sight. Starting from this week (Tuesday 13th September), Pizza Pilgrims will give a free pizza to everyone that brings in an Oasis CD. The promotion is to mark the collaboration with Blur basis Alex James' cheese company, which comes about after they were neighbours at Big Feastival last month near James’ Country House. Thom and James Elliot, Founders of Pizza Pilgrims said "We had an amazing weekend serving pizzas out of...
Zero Hours Contracts Are Not The Problem
By Asma Shah, CEO of You Make It Sports Direct saw a brief change in fortunes on Tuesday when its decision to drop ‘zero hour contracts’ apparently led to an immediate jump of five per cent in its share price. They are beset by a number of other problems at board level and have struggled to maintain this bounce. As a leading player in retail its actions over this type of contract may well cause a ripple across the sector. The...