Britain will unite around the Olympics and greet the Games as a national tonic, according to a Populus poll for The Times which suggests that the public is prepared to suspend its economic pessimism when the carnival of world sport begins this summer. Three quarters intend to get involved, either attending an event in person, watching it on television or getting together with friends in public. David Cameron uses his new year message today to declare 2012 as ?the year we must go for it? because the world will be watching Britain. The Prime Minister urged the country to capitalise on the ?extraordinary incentive? offered by the Games and to ?look outward, look onwards and to look our best?. It would be, he predicted, ?the best Olympics ever?. His enthusiasm is shared by six out of ten Britons who say they are intending to watch the Games on TV, guaranteeing a domestic audience of tens of millions. A further 6 per cent plan to watch on one of the BBC?s 22 big outdoor screens, and almost one in ten plans to attend in person after more than six million tickets were sold last year. This Friday, Olympic authorities begin their re-sale programme, when tickets initially purchased but no longer required go up for grabs. A final batch of 1.3 million tickets will go on sale in the spring. The country is pinning its hopes for British gold on Tom Daley, the 17-year-old diver from Devon, and Jessica Ennis, the 25-year old track an
Cosmetic surgeons face new rules on record keeping as ministers seek to avoid a repeat of the breast-implant health scare affecting tens of thousands of women. Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, is warming to the idea of a national register or database containing details about how many patients have undergone different procedures. He has ordered an urgent review and will meet officials tomorrow to try to establish the full facts. The safety alert took on a new urgency when Transform, the cosmetic surgery chain, told the Department of Health on Friday that 7 per cent of implants supplied by the bankrupt French firm PIP had ruptured since 2006. That contradicted the official figure of 1 per cent supplied by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the industry regulator. The department is unsure if the figure represents the whole i
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David Cameron today vows to tackle City excess as he draws up battlelines for 2012 against Ed Miliband over the issue of a more responsible capitalism. The Prime Minister used his New Year?s message to herald a crackdown on executive salary hikes and big bonuses as he insisted that he would be bold about curbing society?s problems. ?While a few at the top get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they put in, many others are stuck on benefits, without hope or responsibility,? he said. Mr Cameron also signalled a new drive against poor standards in hospitals, saying that often they were not clean enough. And he said that there would be no let up in the drive to ensure that the Government?s welfare and school reforms are pushed to the limit. But his move on to territory already marked out by Mr Miliband suggests that
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Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3273571.ece
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