Back to moaning etc.

Gordon Brown will today set out plans for a $4bn (£2.18bn) international finance facility (IFF) which aims to save 10 million lives in the world's poorest countries. The money will finance vaccination schemes in 72 countries in an attempt to eradicate lethal diseases such as polio, hepatitis B, measles, diphtheria, yellow fever and tetanus. "What medical advance has made possible, financial stringency and the absence of creative thinking of long-term finance has frustrated," the chancellor says. "Now, by matching the power of medical advance with a wholly new innovative mechanism to front-load long-term finance, the IFF for immunisation which we are launching here today will enable 10 million lives to be saved and spare millions of families the agony of a loved one needlessly dying.
Bully for him then. I think we have some of these lethal diseases here. With MRSA as well. Most of our own Hospital Trusts are running big/massive overdrafts on their Budgets. Big in percentage terms, massive in actual money. In my school we learned to write by copying 'Charity begins at home'
In an interview with Transport Times, Alistair Darling says it makes no sense to continue operating trains and stations that have only a handful of passengers. The transport secretary says that "it is anti-train to continue to cart fresh air around the country and do nothing about it". He adds that while being in favour of keeping open local branch lines if possible, "there comes a time when a line is carrying two passengers in the morning and two in the evening, you do have to ask yourself what else we can do".
The 'Government' has been pressing for us all to use public transport. Then Darling picks up the wrong hymnsheet.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, leading doctors from the universities of Bristol, Edinburgh and Sheffield have accused the government of burying a report showing that the life expectancy of poor people is falling further behind the rest of society. A Department of Health spokesman said the claim was "nonsense".
Well thank Christ for that then. If the BMJ is right, I'll not longer have to put up with all this NuLabour crap.
Oh - and by the way. Seems that the exam results at A* level - published with great exposure - were in many cases achieved with exam marks of 40%. Some courses gave pass marks for 16%. Get your name and number right = get a result. God save us.