Just 18 per cent have friends who are religious fundamentalists or racists while 10 per cent know

Just 18 per cent have friends who are religious fundamentalists or racists, while 10 per cent know people who belong to extremist parties.The Adam Smith Institute report, which accompanies the Mori poll, titled The Next Leaders?, concludes that students “tolerate everything except intolerance”.Although the research must contain more than an element of youthful bragging, the researchers claim that the anonymous survey shows up wide variations.While more than 16 per cent of Manchester students use illegal drugs every week, with 4 per cent using them daily, at South Bank University in London, more than 77 per cent have never touched soft or hard drugs. Two-thirds of women and 56 per cent of men say they have never tried illegal drugs. More than one in five are still virgins.Spending is more predictable. On average, students spend seven times as much on alcohol, clubbing, gigs and cinema as on books.They are said to spend pounds 20.32 a week on drink, pounds 17.90 on entertainment, another pounds 11.66 on clothes, pounds 7.43 on CDs and mobile phones and pounds 5.65 on books.Attitudes are comprehensively liberal – 86 per cent claim to have friends from ethnic minorities and 57 per cent say they have gay or lesbian friends. They also spend pounds 25 a week on drink, more than those on any other campus, while 69 per cent claim to take illegal drugs, again the highest figure in the country.Cambridge University, by contrast, tops the league for the number of students who want to enter public service and who believe social background is unimportant to career success.Across Britain, the poll paints a surprisingly staid picture of undergraduate life.

The city more than lives down to its “Madchester” reputation in the Mori poll of undergraduate habits, spending and attitudes nationwide.
The research, commissioned by the Adam Smith Institute, a free market think tank, found that 40 per cent of University of Manchester students claim to have sex once a week, with 9 per cent say they had it “every day”. MANCHESTER HAS emerged as the nation’s capital for illegal drug use, drinking and sex, according to a survey of the nation’s students published today. “They are a fairly safe group of drivers and the accident risk they pose on the road is exactly the same as for a 25-year-old.”. He could only read it from 18.9 metres.The judge told him yesterday: “Loss of liberty will hit you harder than most because of your age. I make the sentence much shorter than it would otherwise have been.”There was a failure on your part to see these two people. It did not involve recklessness, speed or taking a risk.”Casson told police after the accident that he usually left work in daylight because he did not like driving at night.According to a report in April by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and Probation, there were 820 men and 17 women over 60 in the prison system.The AA said yesterday that elderly drivers were usually safe and conscientious behind the wheel.”Older drivers are responsible for only a small minority of accidents,” a spokesman said. I could see the little girl lying in the road.”After the accident, Casson was given an eye test by police and was unable to read the registration of a vehicle from 20.5 metres, as is required of candidates taking driving tests.

I remember one had white hair and they were in the middle of the road, near the white line.”Suddenly I could see lots of articles flying in the air in front of the first car and knew immediately that the car must have hit the people.”I remember thinking, `how could the driver not possibly have seen them’. Casson, who admitted causing the deaths by dangerous driving, was on his way home after helping out at the family leather goods business in Oldham.A witness, Beverley Aspen, who was driving behind him, said: “I looked ahead and could clearly see three people crossing the road from the nearside pavement. A 90-YEAR-OLD motorist became the oldest inmate in the British prison system yesterday when he was jailed for 12 months for killing an elderly woman and her granddaughter. Hours later, after an outcry, Stanley Casson, of Prestwich, Greater Manchester, was released on bail pending an appeal.
Judge Gerard Humphries at Manchester Crown Court told Casson, who had an unblemished driving record from the age of 17, that only a prison sentence could “properly reflect his criminality”.Casson’s Ford Scorpio ploughed into Bridget Wood, 78, and her six-year- old granddaughter, Hollie Williams, last October as they crossed a four- lane highway in Blackley with Hollie’s brother, Ryan, 13, after a shopping trip.Ryan escaped injury.The court heard that the accident took place at dusk, in fine weather.

The future of the Post Office should not be left to chance.”. “I am pleased that we have been able to give greater commercial freedom to the Post Office,” he said. “It is very important to safeguard the future of the thousands of sub-post offices in rural Britain.”Getting involved with the National Lottery is a very good example of a forward-looking Post Office taking advantage of the powers and freedom we have given them.”However, David Chidgey the Liberal Democrat trade and industry spokesman, dismissed Labour’s claims that the Lottery would save rural post offices as “at best nonsense and at worse a cynical smokescreen.”The Post Office has made it clear that whoever wins the Lottery contract will remain suppliers of Lottery tickets, therefore making no difference to sub-post offices.”To remove the threat of closure of half the network, sub-post offices need a guarantee that they will keep their core business of delivering pensions and benefits until they are fully automated and able to compete effectively. However, Mr Holley said the new partnership would not put the Post Office in a preferential position – commissions to all retailers would be the same.Stephen Byers, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, welcomed the partnership. They are three people who can reasonably be expected to be involved in bidding.”The Post Office has about 10,000 National Lottery outlets, half of which sell only Instants tickets They account for 16 per cent of total sales. “Richard Branson [has] an excellent reputation and excellent success in his business, Carlton have been very successful and if you look around the world AWI are involved in successful lottery businesses.

He predicted tough challenges from Richard Branson, Carlton and AWI, the lottery technology company.”They are three very highly rated organisations,” he said. The investment would make the Post Office an equal shareholder with ICL, Cadbury Schweppes, De La Rue and Racal Electronics.Tim Holley, chief executive of Camelot, said he expected stiff competition for the licence, which will run from 2001. “We wanted to get involved in the Lottery in a much bigger way last time but the previous government wouldn’t allow it. This government has allowed us to have a bigger role.”He would not confirm whether the joint offer would attempt to run the lottery on a not-for-profit basis, but City observers expected it to attempt to turn a profit. Camelot’s bid will definitely be a for-profit bid.”
John Roberts, chief executive of the Post Office, said the company had been in talks with “many” potential bidders over the past 18 months and confirmed that its outlets would be available to whoever won.”The Post Office has chosen to join Camelot because we share a common vision for taking the Lottery forward in an exciting, efficient and socially responsible way,” he said. His spokesman, Will Whitehorn, described the new partnership as an attempt by Camelot to improve its public image.