Drugs company defends Seroxat
GlaxoSmithKline has attacked a study claiming its anit-depressant
Seroxat increases the risk of suicide among adults.
It said the research by Oslo University would cause unnecessary
concern for patients on the drug and focused on “incorrectly
selected” data.
Source:- Financial Times Tuesday 21 August 2005 page
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Drug dad broke his tot’s leg
A man has been jailed for three years for breaking his four-month-old daughter’s leg after her crying woke him up.
Timothy Pugh, from Cardiff, was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm, three years after being jailed for a similar offence against a baby.
Source:- The Daily Mirror Tuesday 21 August page 10
Time runs out to object as pubs rush to open late
At least 130,000 pubs, clubs and restaurants are planning to extend their opening hours to midnight during the week and up to 2am at weekends.
Up to 66 per cent of all licensed premises and 90 per cent of bars are in the process of taking advantage of the government’s new, more lenient licensing regime, which comes into force in November.
Source:- The Times Tuesday 23 August 2005 page 1
Police look for answers to death of ‘bullied’ boy
Classmates of Rory Blackhall, the eleven-year-old boy whose body was found on Sunday three days after he disappeared from his home, claimed he had been bullied at school.
A police source said there were no obvious signs of injury to his body or sexual assault, but Lothian and Borders Police refused to comment on the cause of death.
Source:- The Times Tuesday 23 August 2005 page 9
Race claim appeal
Bradford British National Party councillor Arthur Redfearn has won a second hearing of his race discrimination claim against the West Yorkshire Transport Service.
He was sacked from his job as a driver with the private company Serco because it considered him a “health and safety risk” as many of his passengers were Asian.
Source:- The Times Tuesday 23 August 2005 page 12
Drug user barred from his own home
A drug user has been evicted from his flat and banned from within 150 metres of it, after neighbours complained of antisocial behaviour and bags of needles in a communal stairwell.
A metal door now blocks Mickal Watt from entering the flat he owns.
Source:- The Times Tuesday 23 August 2005 page 19
Pressure grows to curb court ‘child-snatchers’
Ministers were under growing pressure last night to scrap the regime of secrecy in family courts which it is claimed has allowed children to be wrongly taken into care
Campaigners stepped up their efforts on behalf of parents who they say have had their children taken away because they were ‘not clever enough’.
Source:- The Daily Mail Tuesday 23 August 2005 page 6
Scottish News
Call for greater support for vulnerable mothers
A report out tomorrow will criticise Scottish maternity services for failing vulnerable mothers.
The study was carried out by the Scottish Women’s Convention, which is funded by the Scottish executive.
Source:- The Herald Tuesday 23 August 2005
Welsh news
Girl’s text led her into sex trap
A paedophile has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for abducting and sexually grooming a 12-year-old girl who he contacted after she accidentally sent him a text message.
She had meant to send the message to a friend it went to Christopher Puxley, 34, from Pontyclun.
They began texting each other, with him using sexually graphic language, and they ended up meeting when they drove around in his car.
Source:- Western Mail Tuesday 23 August 2005
Pensioners forced back to work
Over a thousand pensioners in Wales are being forced back into low-paid work after retiring because they cannot survive on their state pension.
A written parliamentary answer has revealed that the around 1, 500 pensioner households contain someone who has retired but has re-entered employment and is on the working tax credit. Pensioners get the credit if they have an income, including all earnings and pensions, of below £11,500.
Source:- Western Mail Tuesday 23 August 2005
