Washington, October 15 : A research council in the United Kingdom has launched the world’s largest ever household longitudinal study to understand how changes occurring in the ever-evolving societies affect human communities.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) hopes that the ‘Understanding Society’ project will provide valuable new evidence to inform research on the vital issues facing our communities.
The initial funding of 15.5million dollars for the project comes from the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills and the ESRC.
This project is said to eb the largest single investment in academic social research resources ever launched in the UK.
London - Unemployment in Britain has risen sharply to reach 1.79 million or 5.7 per cent of the workforce, its highest level since 1999, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Wednesday.
The figures relate to the second quarter of this year, up to the end of August, a period during which unemployment increased by 164,000.
The rise - the biggest since 1991 - took the official unemployment rate to 5.7 per cent from 5.2 per cent in the previous quarter.
In September, the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance increased by 31,800 to 939,900, the eighth consecutive monthly rise and the highest figure for almost two years.
London, Oct. 15: A British Sikh kebab shop owner has been asked to close down his business after police caught him cooking kebabs with the corpse of a colleague lying on a sofa nearby.
Jaswinder Singh was ordered to stop preparing curries, kebabs and Indian sweets immediately.
According to The Sun, a magistrates’ court heard the catalogue of horrors at Pappu Sweet Centre and Catering in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
It included flies, rats, filth, mouldy food and staff dropping cigarette ends and spitting on the floor.
Refrigerators were running at more than 68°F (20°C). Singh, 45, was banned from working with food again after he admitted
12 hygiene and pest control offences.
London, Oct. 15 : A significant terror plot is being investigated by the security services, Britain’s counter-terrorism minister has warned.
Lord West''s comments came the day after the Lords forced the Government to abandon plans to extend detention without trial.
Lord West, who advises the Prime Minister on security matters, told the House of Lords: "There is another great plot building up again and we are monitoring this."
British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith dropped the measure from the bill after it was defeated in the upper house but warned critics they were exposing the country to a greater risk.
London, Oct. 15 : An Egyptian al-Qaeda suspect and his family have won permission to live in Britain — and claim hundreds in benefits a month.
According to The Sun, the British Government has granted Hany Youssef “discretionary leave to remain”, even as the Home Office admits he is on a UN list of people “belonging to or linked” to the terror group.
The decision means he can stay in Britain with his wife and five kids up to 2011. He is also free to claim housing benefit, child tax credits and Jobseekers’ Allowance.
They have already been living in a house in Hammersmith, West London, at taxpayers’ expense.
London- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday called for agreements on reform of the global financial system and warned that the coordinated measures taken this week were not enough to ensure long-term stability.
Brown told foreign correspondents in London that the stakes were "higher than ever" and that the moves to shore up bank liquidity alone were not sufficient.
"We need to show that we have dealt with the difficulties' cause in the first place, that we are making the reforms that are necessary so that the global financial system will work."
London- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday called for agreements on reform of the global financial system and warned that the coordinated measures taken this week were not enough to ensure long-term stability.
