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BBC Online and Red Button get mixed reviews
May. 21 | Review of BBC Online and the Red Button service by the BBC Trust found that there is an ample room for improvement, although the services are “greatly valued and highly rated in terms of quality and distinctiveness”. In 2011, BBC Online services...
Talk Talk battles Sky, BT and Virgin Media for TV growth
May. 16 | Talk Talk took a leap, much ahead of its rivals, emerging as the fastest-growing new TV business in the UK, adding 150,000 subscribers in the first quarter. Sky added 30,000 TV and internet TV users, BT added 40,000 pay-TV customers and the numbers for...
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes attracted three times more to human odour
May. 16 | Human odour attracts most mosquitoes, but the presence of malaria parasite in them could really help in sniffing out the presence of human beings, according to recently published reports. After studying and experimenting, researchers have found that...
Ceop protects more children than ever, new reports show
May. 14 | UK’s leading child protection agency, The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) claims that there had been a remarkable surge of 85% in the number of children they have saved in 2012-13, than they did last year. The agency protected...
Boy diagnosed with rickets after using sunscreen lotion
May. 13 | A 6-year-old boy named Chris, who loves being outdoors and playing in the sun has now been diagnosed with rickets, after his mother applied sunscreen on him before he went outside. Suzi Head believed that she was protecting her son from skin cancer caused...
UK Government revamps pension rules
May. 7 | In the UK, married person’s spouse pension has fallen by 17 percent, from 2.1 million to 1.7 million in the span of 10 years, from 2002 to 2012. On the contrary, claimants living abroad, some of them whom are British emigrants and foreigners have spiraled...
Tobacco banned from being displayed in large shops
Apr. 30 | Public Health Minister Michael Matheson supported the ban on display of cigarettes and tobacco products in large shops in Scotland recently. The sales of cigarettes from vending machines too been banned by the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland)...
NHS UK launches new 111 non-emergency number
Apr. 1 | A new non-emergency medical number NHS (National Health Service) 111 has been launched nationwide, to ensure quick and efficient local healthcare help. The number 111 replaces NHS Direct and it is not a 999 emergency number. Calls to 111 are not only...
Bank of England could reveal a £60 billion funding gap soon
Mar. 27 | The Bank of England is set to put out its views on the strength of its its finances soon and various banks in Britain are expected to be told that they could be potentially facing a capital shortfall amounting to £60 billion. In November 2012, the Financial...
