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Student blog post: Soaring property prices trigger record 14,000 challenges to wills in a year as a rise in divorces and remarriage leads to disputes between ‘modern families’

  Soaring property prices trigger record 14,000 challenges to wills in a year as a rise in divorces and remarriage leads to disputes between ‘modern families’ The number of challenges rose from 11,735 in 2014 to 14,167 in 2015 Many … Continue reading

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Hounslow ‘second most miserable’ place to live in Britain

According to an article on Get West London, a survey carried out by Rightmove has suggested that Hounslow is the second most miserable place to live in Britain. The article says that Hounslow came 129th out of 130 areas rated … Continue reading

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One in four university students suffer from mental health problems

A survey was completed by YouGov to investigate how many students suffer with mental health problems. The findings state that one in four of the students asked have mental health problems. This can be deemed as accurate as the results … Continue reading

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Blog post: The other day while talking with my mother, she told me she saw on the news that paedophilia has increased by 200% these past year. When I asked her where did she get that statistic from, she said … Continue reading

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Student blog post: YouGov – employers & social media

In the headline of the article, it is stated that “One in Five employers have turned down a candidate because of social media”. The report surveyed different sized organisations, small, medium and large in order to collect their results. The … Continue reading

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One in three women suffers violence, global study finds.

This is the headline for an article posted on The Guardian website on the 20th of June 2013. It states “More than a third of all women worldwide – 35.6% – will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, … Continue reading

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Police use of Tasers in England and Wales rises by 9%

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/police-use-of-tasers-rises-england-and-wales Travis, A (Thursday 13th April, 12:36 BST) Police use of Tasers in England and Wales rises by 9% Officers used stun guns on 11,294 occasions and fired them 1,755 times, in period when violent crime also rose   This … Continue reading

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Student blog post: Abortion rates ‘fairly constant’

  This headline was taken from the online version of BBC news and was published on May 2016. It highlights how abortion rates within England and Wales have stayed ‘fairly constant’ with only 185,824 abortions in 2015. One of the … Continue reading

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Student blog post: YouGov – one of the best-known polling agencies in the country – have released a report called ‘Personal Injury 2014’, which costs £3850

Evidence #2: YouGov poll YouGov – one of the best-known polling agencies in the country – have released a report called ‘Personal Injury 2014’, which costs £3850.  You only have the press release available, which starts:         … Continue reading

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Didcot is ‘most normal town in England’, researchers claim

  According to this article on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), researchers have claimed ‘Didcot’, in Oxfordshire, is the most normal town in England. By examining the article, it is made apparent that the Office for National Statistics and the … Continue reading

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