The Guardian:
Global Radio's Hit40UK chart, which is broadcast on 130 commercial stations across the UK every Sunday, is to be based solely on digital downloads from this weekend.From this Sunday, Hit40UK will drop CD sales and airplay statistics and be based exclusively on digital downloads, which already account for 96% of data from wh (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Commuters across England are facing another trying day following the coldest night of the freezing spell, which saw temperatures in parts of southern England plunge to nearly -12C (10.4F).The coldest areas were Benson in Oxfordshire and Chesham in Buckinghamshire, where the mercury dropped to almost -12C, while other parts (Read More)
The Guardian:
Barack Obama has asked the CNN medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta to join his fledgling administration as the US surgeon general, according to reports.According to washingtonpost.com, the 39-year-old doctor is "the Obama team's first choice" to become America's most senior public health official.Although Gupta has not co (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Inner-London teenagers are the least likely in the country to take drugs and drink alcohol, with schoolchildren in many rural areas more at risk from substance abuse, a major study of children's happiness shows.The findings from Ofsted suggest that children in some of the poorest authorities in the country have the most fri (Read More)
The Guardian:
The company behind a "Want Longer Lasting Sex?" ad campaign for a nasal spray is defying an order to take down its posters by the advertising watchdog.Today the Advanced Medical Institute said it would not take down the posters for the prescription nasal spray, arguing that "men have a right to know" how to perform better i (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
When I was a police officer, the usual reaction to the publication of the Stonewall workplace equality index from gay and lesbian colleagues was: "How could our force have scored so highly?"Like me, many had suffered discrimination at worse and been tolerated at best. When I joined the Metropolitan Police in 1976, homophobi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The government's drive to improve skills in the workplace will "do little" to reduce the number of low-paid jobs, a Labour-leaning thinktank warns today, raising the prospect of a future surplus of overqualified workers.The report, Nice Work If You Can Get It, by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), predicts tha (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Cities will compete every four years for the title of British capital of culture as the government moves to give the arts a bigger stage in urban regeneration, it will be announced today.The winner would not only host a year-long arts programme, but also events normally confined to London such as the Turner prize, the Brit (Read More)