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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 18. July | 71 comments (71 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Something about Glass houses and throwing stones (none / 1)

And, closer to home, life expectancy in the Glasgow East consituency is 14 years years less than the national average

It is only nine miles from Bearsden, an affluent north-western suburb, to Calton in Glasgow East, but the difference in life expectancy is 26 years. In Calton, male life expectancy, at 54, is lower than in North Korea, Iraq and South Yemen.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 05:17:37 AM EST
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Re: Something about Glass houses and throwing ston (none / 1)

Source for this? The story in The Independent has made me even more skeptical than usual of unsourced figures like this. Wikipedia attributes the 53.9 figure (without a link) to the 7th October 2006 edition of the Metro newspaper (no obvious on-line archive), which just makes me even more skeptical. I can't find any other source.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 05:29:55 AM EST
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Re: Something about Glass houses and throwing ston (none / 1)

The BBC suggest a 2002 UN report, but Channel 4 attempted a fact check on some of the various claims

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 05:36:26 AM EST
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Re: Something about Glass houses and throwing ston (none / 1)

I tried again to verify the figures. I couldn't, but I may have figured out the main reason for the high mortality figures, one left out by The Telegraph. If I've worked out Glasgow geography correctly, Glasgow Shettleston corresponds to Glasgow East. According to clearing the air Scotland half of them smoke, far above the national average.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 07:52:22 AM EST
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