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NHS Spending and Tax Cuts
If the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, had time to glance at the Guardian on the morning of Budget Day, perhaps as he ate the frugal breakfast the price of which he apparently had to borrow from a colleague, it might just have raised a smile. For there, in ICM's poll, the mass of the public were saying they wanted him to do very much what he was proposing to announce that he would do. Most of them wanted him to use any spare cash to help the Health Service, and more than half thought a rise in duty on tobacco was the most acceptable tax.
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Labour slumps in Ayr
So, the Conservatives have comfortably gained Ayr from Labour in the first by-election to the Scottish Parliament
(as the polls suggested they would! - ICM/Scotsman poll, Scottish Opinion/Daily Record poll), with Labour convincingly beaten into third by the Scottish National Party, and their Liberal Democrat coalition partners slipping to fifth behind the Scottish Socialist Party. What, if anything, are the wider implications for Labour, and for the Tories? -
Increasing Support In Lewis And Harris For Sunday Sailings And Air Links
A poll conducted by MORI Scotland for BBC Scotland's Gaelic community debate series CUNNTAS (translated as "An account of…") suggests that a majority of islanders now favour the introduction of ferry and air services on Sundays. The poll shows that an overwhelming majority would like to see a local referendum on the issue.
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Majority of Japanese Public Does Not Support Whaling or Consume Whale Meat
Wide-held theory that Japanese support whaling and defend whale meat industry is disproved by leading international opinion research firm.
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The Financial Services Consumer Panel Today Launched Its First Annual Report
"This looks at how the fledgling Financial Services Authority has been performing while it is taking over as the main regulator of financial services in the UK," said Barbara Saunders, Chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel.
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Genetics Poll Shows Public's Confusion
An alarming 65% of adults in Britain are confused and unclear as to what is meant by the term 'gene cloning' according to a recent MORI poll on genetics and cloning commissioned by Action Research, one of the UK's leading medical charities.
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Girls Top The Class In Mental Health Knowledge
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship today (Monday March 12) launched new research showing that young women are more knowledgeable than men about mental health and mental illness.
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Reporting the Polls - a Lot of Hot Ayr
"POLL SHOCK: VOTERS TO GIVE DEWAR A BLOODY NOSE. LABOUR FACE AYR CRASH - EXCLUSIVE BY RON MACKENNA" screams the front page of yesterday's Daily Record, Scotland's highest circulation daily newspaper. It certainly shocked me - but it was the accuracy of the reporting, not the data in the poll (a constituency poll by Scottish Opinion Limited ahead of next week's Ayr by-election) that was disturbing.
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Back Seat Passengers Should Belt Up
Approximately 8 million motorists in Great Britain are still breaking the law and putting lives at risk by not wearing seat belts in the back seat of the car. According to the new Direct Line Motoring Report, only 73% of British motorists claim they always belt up when a passenger in the back seat, despite this having been a legal requirement since 1991. 17-24 year olds are the worst offenders - only 60% of them say they would always belt up when a passenger in the back seat, compared to 82% of those aged 65 and over.