One in three people (29 per cent) say that saving more money is their resolution for the millennium - while only one per cent of people expect to borrow more money, according to new MORI research by IFA Network.
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.
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The new generation of internet-connected games consoles are speeding convergence of home entertainment. The MORI e-Entertainment survey shows that the strongest reason among consumers for purchasing internet-connected games consoles would be the ability to play DVDs via the console - 57% of those who expect to buy an internet-connect games console. Furthermore, 30% of those able to watch DVDs via their PC would consider purchasing a games console in order to watch DVDs on their TV.
A series of polls, first in Scotland where controversy initially arose, and subsequently across the whole of Great Britain, have made it clear that public opinion on Section 28 of the Local Government Act, on the age of consent for homosexual sex, and more generally on attitudes to homosexuality, are by no means as simple or as clear cut as some of those on either side of the argument would like to believe. On the one hand, there is a clear majority of the public opposed both to repealing Section 28 and to lowering the age of consent to 16; but, on the other hand, many of these opponents are happy to admit the legitimacy of homosexual relationships between adults.
