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LLUKLifelong Learning UK and the Museums, Libraries & Archives council have collaborated on a new website to highlight the opportunities for young people in libraries, archives &information services

The new infoprofessional site has been built from a bank of careers information gathered from practitioners from all areas. It features over 30 profiles of actual employees who describe their routes into the world of an ‘infoprofessional’ and offer helpful tips in how to get started.
Press release ~ Lifelong Learning UK ~ Museums, Libraries & Archives council ~ infoprofessional
 
HSENearly 1 in 4 of the construction sites visited by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) during March 2010 failed safety checks. Inspectors from HSE carried out checks at 2,014 construction sites across Great Britain as part of an intensive inspection campaign aimed at reducing death & injury in one of Britain's most dangerous industries.
 
During unannounced visits, inspectors focused on refurbishment & roofing work to ensure that any work at height was being done safely and that the sites were in good order.  A total of 691 enforcement notices were issued at 470 sites, with inspectors giving orders for work to be stopped immediately in 359 instances for either unsafe work being carried out at height or where sites lacked 'good order'. The majority of all notices issued related to unsafe work being carried out at height.
Press release ~ HSE information on construction safety ~ HSE enforcement policy ~ Shattered Lives ~ Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007 ~ Falls and trips in the construction industry
 
Newswire – CRUKPeople in their 60s & 70s are now over 5 times more likely to be diagnosed with malignant melanoma – the deadliest type of skin cancer – than their parents would have been 30 years ago, reveal new Cancer Research UK statistics used to launch the 2010 SunSmart campaign.
 
Of all ages, this generation has seen the biggest increase in incidence rates of melanoma, rising from 7 cases per 100,000 people in the mid 1970s to 36 cases per 100,000 today. The rise shows the impact that a shift in tanning behaviour has had on a whole generation of men & women who would have been in their 20s & 30s during the dawn of cheap package holidays in the 1970s – when sunburn before suntan was a common ritual – and sunbeds arrived in the UK.
Press release ~ Malignant melanoma ~ Non-melanoma skin cancerSun & UV ~ Skin cancer statistics ~ SunSmart website

EH: 70 years on from the Dunkirk evacuation, English Heritage is holding a week of events & activities (28 May - 4 June 2010) at Dover Castle (the nerve-centre of the rescue operation) to mark one of the most dangerous & desperate operations of the WW2 - Operation Dynamo.
 
It was to prove a vital event in WW2, triggering a response of public sympathy for the rescued battle-weary troops and a national resolve to ‘pull together in the face of the enemy’ - The 'Dunkirk Spirit' was born. Highlights of the week include a 3-day event over the May Bank Holiday weekend and (on Friday June 4), a special memorial service attended by veterans.
Press release ~ Dover in WW2 ~ EH: Dover Castle
 
MO: As one of only two World Area Forecast Centres, the Met Office regularly advise the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and National Air Traffic Services on plume trajectories.
Press release ~ Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres ~ How we forecast volcanic ash ~ Health Protection Scotland ~ Health Protection Agency ~ Scottish Environment Protection Agency ~ Icelandic volcanic eruption satellite imagery ~ NATS
 
Newswire – CRUK: Doctors should warn men that prostate cancer testing may lead to anxiety & distress, say Cancer Research UK experts. While most men cope well, 20% can feel distressed at the prospect of having a biopsy, after discovering they have a raised PSA level. And 9% continue to feel this way even after being told they don’t have cancer, according to the study published in the British Journal of Cancer

The researchers are calling for the psychological effects of testing to be clearly explained to men who ask for a PSA test.
Press release ~ ProtecT trial ~ Prostate cancer testing ~ Prostate cancer ~ Biopsies ~ Diagnosis ~ PSA test
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