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13/05/2014
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Social Media Fuels Islamic Extremism
A report, by counter-extremist thinktank Quilliam has said the government is falling to tackle online Islamic extremism.
It also criticised its strategy of censorship and filtering.
Dr Erin Marie Saltman, research project officer at Quilliam said: "Currently there's a large focus for governments to use censorship, blocking and terrorist-related content, censoring, filtering and blocking doesn't necessarily work. You can take down a website and it can go viral 10 seconds later."
Building Firm Fined After Apprentice Falls
A Dutch building firm has been fined after an apprentice fractured his skull falling more than six metres from a scaffold during construction of the new West Bromwich Leisure Centre.
Sandwell Magistrates' Court heard that the 19-year-old worker, who has asked not to be named, was working for Pellikaan (Construction) Ltd when the incident happened on 4 October 2013.
He was standing on a tower scaffold in the empty swimming pool, attempting to cut canvas coverings from wooden roof beams. The scaffold was too high to fit under the beams so he started to take off the handrails.
Meanwhile at ground level, the site manager, who is also the apprentice's father, and another employee gave the tower a nudge to help get the handrails off, causing it to topple and fall.
The teenager, from Bedfordshire, fell and landed with such force that his hard hat broke and he suffered a fractured skull. He also shattered his ankle and is still off work.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found Pellikaan had failed to ensure the work on the roof beams was properly planned and carried out safely. The scaffold had been put on a slope within the pool and no outriggers had been used to stabilise it.
Pellikaan (Construction) Ltd, of Gutter Lane, London, was fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £1,046 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations.
Abortions Increase Among Older Women
The number of women in their late 30s and 40s having abortions is increasing, new research has suggested.
A reason for the rise is said to be because women wrongly assume they are now too old to become pregnant. According to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), some older women are said to be under the illusion that they no longer need to use contraception because, by this age, the only way they can fall pregnant is through IVF treatment.
The BPAS is Britain's largest abortion provider, and criticised experts who say women in their late 30s, or older, are "leaving it too late" to start a family, even though their chances of conception are still high.
Research conducted by the organisation found that of the 156,751 women who had abortions between 2011 and 2013, those in their late 30s and 40s were far less likely to use contraception than younger age groups. Some 42% of women in their 40s had not used contraception, compared to 36% in their early 30s and 34% in their late 20s.
Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of BPAS, is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying: "Over the past few years we have seen much scaremongering about older women's fertility. From career women leaving it too late to older women banking on IVF to conceive, these stories lead many women to dramatically underestimate their own fertility later in life.
"At BPAS we see more women over 35 with unplanned pregnancy than we do women under 18. We know from speaking to women that stories and campaigns suggesting it's hard to get pregnant after 35 – even if well intentioned – are having a real impact on women's perception of their own fertility, and therefore their use of contraception.
(CVS/CD)
A report, by counter-extremist thinktank Quilliam has said the government is falling to tackle online Islamic extremism.
It also criticised its strategy of censorship and filtering.
Dr Erin Marie Saltman, research project officer at Quilliam said: "Currently there's a large focus for governments to use censorship, blocking and terrorist-related content, censoring, filtering and blocking doesn't necessarily work. You can take down a website and it can go viral 10 seconds later."
Building Firm Fined After Apprentice Falls
A Dutch building firm has been fined after an apprentice fractured his skull falling more than six metres from a scaffold during construction of the new West Bromwich Leisure Centre.
Sandwell Magistrates' Court heard that the 19-year-old worker, who has asked not to be named, was working for Pellikaan (Construction) Ltd when the incident happened on 4 October 2013.
He was standing on a tower scaffold in the empty swimming pool, attempting to cut canvas coverings from wooden roof beams. The scaffold was too high to fit under the beams so he started to take off the handrails.
Meanwhile at ground level, the site manager, who is also the apprentice's father, and another employee gave the tower a nudge to help get the handrails off, causing it to topple and fall.
The teenager, from Bedfordshire, fell and landed with such force that his hard hat broke and he suffered a fractured skull. He also shattered his ankle and is still off work.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found Pellikaan had failed to ensure the work on the roof beams was properly planned and carried out safely. The scaffold had been put on a slope within the pool and no outriggers had been used to stabilise it.
Pellikaan (Construction) Ltd, of Gutter Lane, London, was fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £1,046 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations.
Abortions Increase Among Older Women
The number of women in their late 30s and 40s having abortions is increasing, new research has suggested.
A reason for the rise is said to be because women wrongly assume they are now too old to become pregnant. According to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), some older women are said to be under the illusion that they no longer need to use contraception because, by this age, the only way they can fall pregnant is through IVF treatment.
The BPAS is Britain's largest abortion provider, and criticised experts who say women in their late 30s, or older, are "leaving it too late" to start a family, even though their chances of conception are still high.
Research conducted by the organisation found that of the 156,751 women who had abortions between 2011 and 2013, those in their late 30s and 40s were far less likely to use contraception than younger age groups. Some 42% of women in their 40s had not used contraception, compared to 36% in their early 30s and 34% in their late 20s.
Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of BPAS, is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying: "Over the past few years we have seen much scaremongering about older women's fertility. From career women leaving it too late to older women banking on IVF to conceive, these stories lead many women to dramatically underestimate their own fertility later in life.
"At BPAS we see more women over 35 with unplanned pregnancy than we do women under 18. We know from speaking to women that stories and campaigns suggesting it's hard to get pregnant after 35 – even if well intentioned – are having a real impact on women's perception of their own fertility, and therefore their use of contraception.
(CVS/CD)
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