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Scotland’s crime rate is soaring at such a fast rate that recently it has been listed in the world’s most violent countries. Adding to the crime chart is yet another report which states that knife crime culture is at a high in Scotland, with the convictions merely reaching a ten-year high. This news has come up as an alarm for the Scottish government, which need to put a check on this raging issue.

Looking at the reports we can see an increase of 21% in the number of knife crimes in Lothian and Borders last year. It was also known that the rate of killings carried out with knife in the country was also at the highest in the last five years. In many parts of Scotland the crimes with weapons have gone up, in Lothian and Borders itself about 431 conviction cases were reported last year involving such offensive weapons which is far more than the crimes recorded in 2007-08.

All these reports have raised a serious question on the security of the people in Scotland and also asked for a concrete measure to control these knife crimes.

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Scotland is in verge of becoming the polluter haven, the lower fines is helping companies to escape with enviromental crimes. Report suggests that the companies which tend to pollute the environment by dumping waste in Scotland are fined much lower than south of the Border. Well’ this has given these big companies a golden opportunity to freely escape by paying a mere sum of £2,500, in contrast to £7,193 in England and Wales, which is really sad.

This has even widened the problem of keeping the country safe from this environmental threat, which is playing havoc with the lives of the Scottish people. The drop in the fines in past years has given a cushion to these companies who are encouraged to do such illegal acts openly.

Many environmental agencies has felt this is a matter of great concern and needs to be addressed soon or else this may lead to a serious threat for the people and environment of Scotland. Looking to the figures, a company by dumping waste illegally saves £100,000 and just need to pay a fine of £8000.

The administration need to look into the matter and impose serious fines to such companies who do pollute the environment by their waste. Even sentence for imprisonment should also go up to keep a check to such raging crimes.

In a recent study it was found that more than one in ten Scot fathers do drugs. This horrifying report has raised eyebrows of the Scottish government passing directives to hold an urgent inquiry in regard to this findings. Experts suggests that this a raging issue and needs to be sort out, in order to counter the growing issues among children being brought up by such drug addict parents, new policies have been made.

The number of such drug abuse cases among  parents has gone up this year, its the need of the hour to control this situation soon or else it  may end up ruining the life of many more innocent children. Reports even reveal that about 11 per cent father and 6 per cent of mothers are victims of drug abuse, along with that many cases of children harassment and murder has been reported in recent years.

Problems faced by the children living with drug abuse parents

• Lack of care and protection.
• Vulnerability to child abuse.
• Cruel treatment by parents.

Government is designing strategies to tackle this growing issue and step are been taken to make sure  such children gets a healthy environment to live. It is felt that soon this raging issue will be controlled.

A major study into Scotland’s ‘booze and blades culture’ was ordered last year by ministers to halt

a growing tide of violent crime, which had caused the loss of 54 lives. According to estimates, at least 1400 Scots find themselves victims of knife attacks every year.  West Central Scotland is then forced to spend £3.5 m a year for treating these victims.

The government, in its bid to combat this growing menace, had then sought the help of those skilled in researching crime.

Now it seems that the government is finally ready to act, if Scotland’s Community Safety Minister Fergus E wing is to be believed. Changing Scotland’s “booze and blade culture” seems easy, he said recently, but emphasized that “we cannot go on as we are,” while announcing funding to the tune of £30,0000 to supply metal detectors to pubs and clubs which have won the Best Bar None Award for the first time ever.

The Best Bar None Awards Scheme began set off in Manchester and made its debut in Glasgow in 2005. Since then,  it has expanded to Aberdeen, Aberdeen shire, Angus, Dundee, Falk irk, Fife, Inverness, Perth, Stirling and West Lothario.

The metal detectors to be supplied free of cost are expected to act as watchdogs and help keep customers safe and prevent knife crime.

July 24

In order to tackle  illegal file sharing on internet to download music a new annual charge of up to £30 has been proposed yesterday. This new law will be beneficial to overcome the rising online music piracy and will also help the music industry to curb  such illegal operations happening online.

It was reported that in the process of stopping online piracy letters will be send to those users, suspected of file-sharing by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.  It was also said, that the internet companies have agreed to make sure their customers know that its illegal to share copyrighted music. The government has taken this decisive step due to the continuous rise in such illegal downloading via Internet.

If we look at the figures we can spot that over six million people download files illegally in the UK every year showing how rampant it is. It is expected that this new policy will somehow curb this growing piracy and will also educate people about the illegal business going on.

July, 21

Government figures have revealed that there has been a substantial rise in the number of knife attacks among prison inmates in recent past. Looking at the figures one can know that there were 208 such incidents involving knife or blade as the main weapon in the assault in the English and Welsh prison last year. This number is far more than that of the previous years.

The sudden rise in these violent incidents among the prison inmates is a matter to be sorted out soon. This violent behaviour by these prisoners has jumped almost double from the numbers in 2007. The weapons these adult prisoners used include knives, hot liquid, furniture, and blunt instruments.

With such a violent condition in the prison several questions are raised as to what exactly is the reason for this nuisance. It was also felt that the rise in the number of prisoners can be one of the reasons for this growing violent incidents.

The prison authorities are planning out concrete measure to make sure these violent attacks among prisoner shall drop to some extent.

July, 14

A fresh campaign is all set to be launched to crackdown the increasing alcohol-fuelled violence in Scotland. It was quite evident how underage-drinking and binge drinking has been on a rise in Scotland and has taken shape of a major issue these days. This campaign will help to reduce the anti-social behaviour among youths and will also try to curb the under-age drinking.

It is been found that drinking mainly surges during school holidays and that brings in more tensions in the form of alcohol-fuelled violence. The campaign will focus on to reduce the increasing street drinking culture and will deal with this serious issue using byelaws. Apart from this a two-week drink/drug driving campaign will also be started which will focus on men aged from 17-29. Police patrols will also be tightened and more frequent to combat any such drinking driving incidents.

The check on the drinking driving will help to curb the growing numbers of accidents in which many innocent lives are lost daily. The campaign will convince such drivers that the conviction in these cases can ruin their lives by affecting their future prospects and professional life.

To make sure that the under-age drinking problem is dealt properly, it is necessary that the parents take some interest to known what’s happening in their wards life. The parents should keep an eye on their children’s and should prevent them from falling into the trap of this drinking culture. Now time will tell how this campaign gets on and helps to crackdown this rising incidents of alcohol-fuelled violence and under-age drinking.

July, 10

If you find graphic images of diseased livers on alcohol bottles then don’t be surprised, as the docs have proposed the use of such graphic images as a warning for drinkers. This proposal came as a result of the trend of excessive consumption of alcohol in the UK. In the BMA conference in Edinburgh it was known that the alcohol consumption in the UK had doubled since 1960. It is expected that such warnings on the bottles of beer and wine will help to reduce the consumption to some extent.

It is clearly known that in recent times their has been a major upward trend in the drinking culture in the UK. This in turn is resulting to more and more alcohol related ailments and also is giving rise to more crimes. Doctors have raised the need to use graphic images on alcohol products and also such posters in pubs and clubs where alcohol is largely served.

UK has been fighting with the severe problem of binge drinking from a long time and also in recent year’s cases of under age drinking has come up as a major concern. With such an easy availability of alcohol to all, this problem has become a major problem now. To overcome this problem such unpleasant images on alcohol bottles, can and posters will help to some extent.

According to doctor Raj Narula, a urologist at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Wales, excessive consumption of alcohol causes cirrhosis of the liver which leads to cancer. Its time to take some decisive step to combat this problem, slowly this problem is taking shape of an epidemic and we need to fight it out before its too late. He said we have to start from an early age targeting teenagers who are more vulnerable to this drinking culture.

So the day is not far when we can see images displaying the hazards of consuming alcohol on liquor bottles.

July, 8

Adding another count to the rising number of accidents in the UK, last day one more such tragic accident occurred in the county Antrim. In this fatal accident two Indian men lost their lives.

According to sources the accident occurred on the A8 between Belfast and Larne near the Bruslee here yesterday. The crash involved two cars and a bus in which several passengers were traveling.

The eye-witness of this tragic crash described it as a horrific accident; those Indian origin men who lost their lives were reported to be in their early 40s and were in the same car. The passengers in the bus and the person driving the second car have escaped with minor injuries.

Meanwhile Councillor Paul Girvan, who was one of the witnesses of the accident, said the part of the road where the accident occurred is an extremely dangerous one, and often vulnerable to such accidents.

April, 12

In a shocking report it was revealed that teenage girls are getting exposed to drugs far earlier than their male counterparts. The research showed that girls get use to these drugs at a much early age than boys. Even these young girls try out all sorts of drugs including cocaine, LSD, and Ecstasy way before boys. This trend in girls has shown how these teens are getting attracted to these recreational drugs apart from the fact that these drugs could harm them.

The reasons which makes these young girls fall into the drug culture is through older boy friends and also by getting use to visiting the nightclubs. You can easily spot many teenage girls smoking and hanging out with their boy friends in nightclubs and even taking drugs without any hesitation. All this has a lot to do with their lifestyle and friend circle, which plays a vital role for getting adapted to this drug culture in such an early age. Even the way these days girls are getting into relations with older boys gives them the comfort to easily get into these nightclubs which are main centres for getting such drugs. The lack of check at the entrance of these clubs gives these under-age-girls to have an easy way in to these clubs.

While the mindset of these new generation girls to have a go at everything gets them into such situations where they themselves don’t know what they are into. And when they finally come to know, it becomes too late.