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Transport - England's Most Important Local Issue
Commission for Integrated Transport
Chair: Professor David Begg
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Can't Surf, Won't Surf
Which? Online's 2000 Annual Internet Survey Reports That 15 Million Britons Say They Won't be Getting On The Internet
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British Business At Risk From Security Apathy
Compaq Survey Reveals Lax Attitude Toward Data Security
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British Public And The World's Poor Short-Changed On Debt Relief
Poll on public attitudes to debt relief highlights serious confusion over how far world leaders have actually moved to cancel debts
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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.