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Business On Blair
Q1 Do you think the economic condition of the country will improve, stay the same, or get worse over the next 12 months?
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Confidence In Government Ability To Achieve Uk Online Internet Goals Plummets
Parliamentarians Increasingly Concerned About The Net's Disadvantaged Claims World Internet Forum Survey
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Sport And Children - More Opportunity, Less Participation?
An overwhelming majority of adults believes that children have more opportunity to play sport than they had, but are less active. This is one of the findings of a new Nestle & acute; Family Monitor study on 'Sport and the Family' undertaken with the Youth Sport Trust.
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British Business At Risk From Security Apathy
Compaq Survey Reveals Lax Attitude Toward Data Security
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Challenges of the Demographic Shift
Foresight Ageing Population Panel
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Elections and the BBC
Earlier this week Peter Kellner in his column in the London Evening Standard strongly criticised two aspects of BBC coverage of the London Mayor and other local elections to be held next month. First, he complained that the BBC's political journalists in London, who had commissioned a poll on the election from MORI [BBC London Live poll] had been prevented by Corporation policy from including any questions on voting intention; this is merely the continuation of a policy which we have criticised for a number of years. Secondly, he has pointed out a new restriction, which will lead to all the parties being required to run their election broadcasts before Easter, a full ten days before polling day. This, arises from the introduction of pilot schemes in a number of councils across the country, whereby a few polling stations will be open early, on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the normal polling day, so that electors who cannot vote in the usual way will be able to cast thei...