A generation of sickees

Posted by on Jan 3, 2008 in updates | 10 comments There are more young people under 35 unable to work because of stress and depression than on the dole, according to today’s FT. The report says that more than half a million young Britons are officially too sick to work and claim incapacity benefits. This figure includes more than 300,000 young people claiming for “mental and behavioural disorders”. I bet the government wishes...
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Twitter helps find missing girl

Posted by on Jan 3, 2008 in updates | 7 comments I use Twitter and think it is a great micro-blogging service. And now it has been credited with finding a missing runaway 16-year-old girl, Manessa Donovan, believed to have been with a 38-year-old man. This is what her family says: In truth, the search had stalled out after 2 weeks of depending solely on local law enforcement. Once you guys were involved, we had locations, eye-witness...
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