By Lydia Sherlock
Obesity is a growing (excuse the pun) problem in the UK, especially in children.
Obesity levels have trebled since the 1980s and a 2007 study carried out for the Department of Health predicts that if current trends continue, 60% of men and 50% of women will be obese by 2050. One in [...]
Last Tuesday, the Prime Minister David Cameron gave an interview in which he announced that his government would tackle fraud and error in the welfare system.
“Welfare and tax credit fraud and error cost the taxpayer £5.2 billion a year. That’s the cost of more than 200 secondary schools or over 150,000 nurses. It’s absolutely outrageous [...]
Last November, Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy wrote to Barbara Janke asking for Quality Contract Schemes to be put in place between Bristol City Council and our bus operators. Ms Janke declined, stating that this would cost £30m, which we can’t afford in a recession. She also mentioned that the council were ‘looking at other [...]
Afghanistan is the world’s worst place to give birth – a greater threat to life than being a soldier in the current conflict – reports Laura Dale.
We can’t send Bristol back to an era where decisions about the future development of our city are made behind closed doors by a self-selected few.
Supporters of a supermarket at Ashton Gate now appear to have decided the fault lies with the referee rather than accept their entire game plan is fundamentally flawed.
People making decisions over the Kingswood swimming pool need to realise its significance. It might not be much, but it’s the best we’ve got in Bristol.
It is with great pleasure I am writing to congratulate the people of Bristol on how wonderful the city now looks and the great retail and leisure brands the city centre now has to offer.
Bristol City Council “invites you to submit ideas” to cut its budget by £35m. Even if it was possible to do this, where are the figures to base our ‘conversation’?
The message from the budget is clear; we are all in this together but some of us will have a more equal burden than others.
