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This paper introduces the active labour market policies or job search policies in the UK known as the New Deal, a major part of the Labour Government's package of welfare-to-work policies. Topics covered include estimates of their overall impact on employment; their limited effectiveness with disadvantaged job-seekers, including increasing numbers of inactive, but not formally unemployed, people; and debates about these policies in relation to skill needs and areas of job decline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigates the spatial distribution patterns of juvenile Atlantic salmon during night and day in Great Britain. Calculations on nocturnal foraging in winter; Use of an automated activity monitoring system; Impact on growth rates.

Determines the number of accidental poisoning in children in Great Britain from 1958 to 1977. Consideration of salicylates as the most commonly fatal poison; List of drugs with toxic effects on children; Impact of drug safety packaging on mortality.