The new EU environment commissioner Janez Potocnik has his eyes on our land, writes Natalie Hamill. A proposed EU Soil Directive may have been blocked in the past but it is now back, and this time Potocnik is determined to see it become law.
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To mark the centenary of International Women’s Day, BBC Channel 4 is currently broadcasting a series about women made by feminist film-maker Vanessa Engle. The instalment shown yesterday was designed to expose how badly done by, in the opinion of Engle, are those women who, upon becoming mothers, opt to stay-at-home to care for their young off-spring and their bread-winning spouses.
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Meet eight-year-old Rosie: Rosie’s favourite subject at school is philosophy. Rosie enjoys starting the day with a series of ‘mind stretching games’. Rosie also finds the seven times table the hardest. In addition, Rosie struggles to write in full sentences, differentiate between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ and rarely achieves above seven out of 10 in weekly spelling tests.
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This week the Home Office published a new report entitled ‘The Drivers and Perceptions of Anti-Social Behaviour’. It attempts to clarify the difference between an objective measure of antisocial behaviour and perceived antisocial behaviour, as well as delineating strategies at neighbourhood and national levels.
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The row rumbles on over the misuse of crime statistics, in which everybody from the BBC, to the National Statistics watchdog, to the Prime Minister himself has joined in to castigate the Tory election machine, and to claim that there is no possibility of using police-recorded figures to compare the government’s record on police-recorded crimes of violence pre- and post-2002.
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As the European Union battles the current recession, Greece’s financial situation has reignited debate on the establishment of a European Monetary Fund (EMF), writes Natalie Hamill.
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