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17,000 Healthy Dogs Destroyed In UK Last Year
A MORI survey published on 7 July 2000 reveals that an estimated 17,000 healthy dogs were destroyed in the UK last year. The NCDL, the UK's largest dog welfare charity, believes that the actual number of dogs destroyed in the UK could be nearer 50,000 if all dog handling agencies are taken into consideration. This equates to around 137 healthy dogs being destroyed every day, either because their owners could not be traced or a new owner could not be found - a situation the NCDL finds totally unacceptable.
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Winning the Referendum
If Tony Blair wants to win endorsement in a referendum for taking Britain into the single European Currency, he is going to have to change a lot of people's minds. It is still possible, but attitudes against the Euro are hardening and the hurdle is becoming steadily higher. Three recent MORI surveys (for The Times, the News of the World and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney) have explored the scale of the task facing him, and some of the factors that will work for and against him.
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The Bubble Bursts
This month's sharp drop in the government's and Tony Blair's own approval ratings [June's Times poll] restores the political scene in Britain to what we generally assume to be its normal state, after more than three years when it seemed as if the laws of gravity had been suspended. For most of the half-century in which opinion polls have been measuring the state of the parties and ratings of the governments and their leaders, it has been a constant that governments are unpopular; for the first time, Mr Blair's ratings are beginning to be comparable to those of his predecessors.
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Voting & the Influence of Religion
It is reported in the press this week that Conservative leader William Hague's latest initiative to win votes from the government is a meeting with a leader of the American religious Right, exploring the possibility of making a religion-based appeal for votes at the next election.
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It's Official - One In Six Women Don't Have Enough Time For Themselves
A recent survey by MORI in to women's me-time, revealed that even with all the gadgets and gizmos to make life easier and more relaxing, nearly 60% of women aged 20 - 40 years complained they still didn't have enough 'personal time' to indulge and pamper themselves.