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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.
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Public Still Regards Doctors As The Most Trustworthy Group
The public's trust in doctors remains extraordinarily high despite the Shipman trial.
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Politics & Citizenship? Young People Don't Want To Play
Young people are turned off by government, citizenship and community. This is revealed today by authors Madsen Pirie and Sir Robert Worcester who unveil the third in their series of reports covering the attitudes and aspirations of young people. Their previous work, The Millennial Generation and The Next Leaders, revealed an ambitious and self-confident generation. Their new work, entitled The Big Turn-Off, is published today by the free market Adam Smith Institute. Based on MORI polls conducted among young people over a 20 month period, it examines their attitudes to government, citizenship and community.
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Labour's Nightmayor
In ten weeks' time, in theory, Londoners should be voting for their first directly-elected mayor. Even that is uncertain: because the House of Lords has blocked the passage of the regulations that will govern the contest, there is even the possibility that it may have to be postponed altogether. If so, it would be a final indignity in keeping with the shambles which has pervaded all aspects of the proceedings up to now.
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Women's Understanding Of Cervical Cancer
These are the findings of a new survey commissioned by Imperial Cancer Research Fund from MORI.**
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Hit and Myth
The Daily Telegraph's lead editorial on 14 February, argued on the basis of recent Conservative successes in local government by-elections that the Conservatives are in a much stronger position than current opinion polls suggest.