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Scottish Attitudes To Mental Health
A quarter of people in Scotland (26%) say they have personally experienced a mental health problem according to new research from MORI Scotland. The Scottish Executive commissioned the survey — the second national Scottish Survey of Public Attitudes to Mental Health — in order to establish changes in attitude and experience of mental health since the baseline study in 2002.
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NHS Commuter Walk In Centres Near Rail Stations
Almost two thirds (63%) of commuters say they would use an NHS Commuter Walk in Centre if they were feeling ill, according to research by the MORI Social Research Institute.
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Crime And Young People
Young people are more likely to say they have been the victim of a crime in the past 12 months than the rest of the British public, according to research from MORI. The survey, for The Sun, shows half (52%) of people aged 15-17 say they have been the victim of any crime in the past year, compared with two in five (40%) people aged 18-24 and less than a third (30%) of all people aged 16+.
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Business Leaders 'Start Young'
Many of Britain's top business people showed signs of ambition whilst still at school, according to new research from MORI. The survey has been released as part of the DDI's report 'The Leading Edge: Leadership potential from the classroom to the boardroom'. Among the 105 business leaders interviewed by MORI, 70% had been school prefects, half (50%) had captained their sports teams, almost a third (30%) had been heads or deputy heads of school and a similar number had been leaders of youth groups outside school such as the Scouts or Brownies.
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MORI Political Monitor November - Topline Results
Labour's lead over the Conservatives remains in November's MORI Political Monitor. It currently registers 35% support among those certain to vote (down four points on October's measure). The Conservatives are at 31%, up two points, with the Liberal Democrats on 23% (up one). Ratings of both Tony Blair and Michael Howard remain negative, by a 2:1 margin. Defence and foreign affairs remains, in the eyes of British voters, the most important issue facing Britain today, although those who say the NHS and Health is most important has gone down, slightly, from 36% last month to 32% this month. After hitting 20% in October (the highest level for four years), mentions of pensions/social security have fallen to 12%.
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MORI Political Monitor November
Labour's lead over the Conservatives remains in November's MORI Political Monitor. It currently registers 35% support among those certain to vote (down four points on October's measure). The Conservatives are at 31%, up two points, with the Liberal Democrats on 23% (up one). Ratings of both Tony Blair and Michael Howard remain negative, by a 2:1 margin. Defence and foreign affairs remains, in the eyes of British voters, the most important issue facing Britain today, although those who say the NHS and Health is most important has gone down, slightly, from 36% last month to 32% this month. After hitting 20% in October (the highest level for four years), mentions of pensions/social security have fallen to 12%.
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Rating British Prime Ministers
Labour's first post-war Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, has been voted as the most successful British Prime Minister in the 20th century, according to a survey conducted by MORI and the University of Leeds among academics specialising in 20th century British history and politics.
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Sharing Home PCs
Keeping in touch using a home PC can lead to tension in the home, with 90% of home PC users who use email to keep in touch saying they argue with other family members over who gets to use the PC.
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2004 ABTA Holiday Survey
The 2004 Holiday Survey conducted by MORI for ABTA has found that the internet is now firmly established as a booking tool for holidays. One in five (19%) holidaymakers now book their package holiday online — six times the number that were doing so in the year 2000.
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Saving The World Will Have To Wait - Most Americans Need Convincing
Britons are now much more willing to take action to reduce climate change than Americans, who remain unconvinced of the need to change their behaviour, despite being the world's biggest polluter. Recent research by MORI for the Climate Group shows that Great Britain's population is more willing to consider 'acting now' to tackle climate change than is the US (63% vs 46%). By contrast, Americans are more hesitant, saying that 'wait & see' is the preferable course of action (41% vs 27% in Britain).