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Local Elections Turnout
Next Thursday will see local government elections being held in most of England, both the high profile contest for London Mayor and the much less heralded contest for more than 3,300 seats on around 150 district and borough councils. Turnout will almost certainly be dire, as it nearly always is these days; last year it was 36% in the shire districts, 31% in the unitary authorities and just 26% in the metropolitan boroughs.
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Local Support For Twickenham Stadium
The RFU recently commissioned a MORI survey on the views of the local community relating to Twickenham Stadium. This was done to test the perception, particularly at local council level, that there was widespread opposition among residents to increased activities at the Stadium.
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Nurses Spell Out Their NHS Spending Priorities
Nurses believe the biggest priority for tackling nurse shortages is for services to have the right number and type of nurses, health care assistants and other staff, according to a MORI poll for the Royal College of Nursing, published on the eve of RCN Congress 2000.
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New Findings Highlight Link Between School Exclusion And Offending
The link between patterns of truancy and school exclusion and offending by young people is thrown into sharp relief by two surveys carried out by MORI on behalf of the Youth Justice Board.
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Parents In The Workplace
Over half of adults in Great Britain think Tony Blair should not take paternity leave when his child is born in May, according to a MORI poll for the Mail on Sunday. 57% want him to carry on his job as normal, whilst only a quarter say he should take unpaid parental leave from his job which he is entitled to do under new legislation brought in by his government.
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Attitudes To Illegal Drugs
Two-thirds of Britons believe that drug laws are not tough enough, according to a MORI survey on attitudes to illegal drugs for the Police Foundation. Almost the same proportion (69%) disagree with the statement "taking drugs is a matter of personal choice and should not be against the law", with 21% taking the libertarian position.
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IT Week: Online staff face controls
Employee misuse of Internet access and email has reached epidemic proportions in UK companies
In an online poll of IT Week readers, 43 percent revealed that disciplinary action had been taken against employees for contravening company email or Internet access policy.
While reasonable personal Internet and email use is tolerated in most firms, the survey highlights employers' fears that staff are wasting time online or, worse, will land their employers in court by downloading illegal material or casually sending defamatory emails. Leaking confidential company information in emails is also a concern.
The survey was conducted during January and February by IT Week, MORI and software security firm Elron. The findings supported those of MORI and Elron's more general survey of Internet users, which was also conducted in January.
The two surveys suggest that the problem is exacerbated by companies not communicating what is expected of staff.
About two-thirds of companies said they h... -
Big Business Ideas Are Born In The Bathroom
Top business leaders throughout Britain are more likely to get their best ideas in the bathroom than the boardroom - a MORI Captains of Industry survey of chairmen, chief executives and managing directors has revealed.