If there is any focus on prayer in the Bible it is prayer for the government Let us pray for kings and authority. A second team of psychiatrists say many people in Surrey are having to pay pounds 200 a month.”Doctors prescribing Donepezil in good faith will be astonished at the mark-up being charged by some pharmacists,” says the Bath team in a letter to the British Medical Journal.A spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Society said: “Pharmacists are professional people and are at liberty to charge the fee that they see fit.”. As Christians, one of the things that motivates us is a person that at last starts to talk about compassion Then we can, and do, say: ‘Well, he’s talking about it. David Akande, who helped to organise theevent, said that when he heard Mr Blair’s speech at the Labour Party conference about the kind of country he wanted, he had found himself saying “Amen” “I was almost in some way praying … Thousands of charismatic Christians gathered at the London Arena in Docklands on Friday night for The Festival of Life, nine-and-a-half hours of singing, dancing and, most importantly, praying that God would guide the Government in its care of Britain. Mr Blair was singled out, for the congregation believed that their prayers were answered on 1 May with the election of the new government and that their task was to call upon God to help the Prime Minister to fulfil his election promises.
While others condemned the Government last week for its treatment of single mothers, those at the Arena still believed in Mr Blair’s values. Famlies of Alzheimer’s patients desperate to get the first licensed drug to treat the disease are being charged up to pounds 200 a month – three times the NHS price – by pharmacists who have been accused by doctors of unacceptable profiteering.

Donepezil is licensed in the UK but is not widely available on the NHS, leading to some patients taking out private prescriptions.
The drug, which has been shown to delay the progress of the disease, costs the NHS pounds 68 for a month’s supply. But a team at the Research Institute for the Care of the Elderly, in Bath, which carried out a survey of 62 chemist shops, found that patients were being charged anything from pounds 68.32 to pounds 168.78. Restrictions would only be lifted when it was “absolutely sure” the water was safe, said customer services director, Charles Schooling.John Wilson, at Allander Sports Centre in Bearsden, said people had been flocking to use the free facilities – supplied from a different source – after the offer was publicised on local radio. And for a simple wash, residents were having to traipse to relatives living in other parts of the city or down to sports centres to take advantage of free showers.
Residents in parts of Clydebank, Bearsden and Milngavie have been unable to drink or wash in tap water since Wednesday, after a leak from a power generator at a treatment works polluted the water supplies for more than 22,000 households.West of Scotland Water was “working round the clock to resolve the situation,” though it could be days before supplies were restored. Buses and vans were hijacked and set on fire and petrol bombs thrown at RUC officers protecting the 3,000 Apprentice Boys. Rocks and bottles were hurled at police as they held back a crowd of up to 1,000 residents of the nearby Catholic Bogside area.
Police in full riot gear moved into the area and plastic bullets were fired. Parts of the city were sealed off, but tension escalated as darkness fell.

Shoppers fled as mobs went on the rampage.The RUC had tried to avoid clashes by confining both the parade and the demonstration to restricted areas.The police tactics were criticised by both Protestants and nationalists. Donnacha MacNiallais, of the Bogside Residents’ Group, said: “The rights of the people of Derry were sacrificed to allow this show of sectarian aggression, and the RUC, as usual, acted as the guardians of those bigots.” The security operation brought part of the city to a virtual standstill.The trouble flared just days after nationalist representatives, including Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, met Tony Blair in Downing Street.Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble last night looked ahead to a possible face-to-face meeting with Mr Adams.Mr Trimble, who has so far refused direct talks with Mr Adams at the multi-party Belfast negotiations, said on Irish television: “So many things are possible.”We have seen actually in the past people who have forsaken terrorism and genuinely changed into democrats.”It takes time, but it has happened in the past. In an interview recorded for GMTV, Mr Blair will argue that “the only decision-making body is the finance ministers of all 15 countries”.. Londonderry yesterday experienced its worst violence since the restoration of the IRA ceasefire in July, when riots broke out as nationalists protested at a Protestant Apprentice Boys parade through the city centre. Turkey was recognised for the first time as “eligible for accession” to the EU but was told it would have to meet conditions on human rights before being admitted to a standing conference for “aspiring” member states.Mr Blair will today argue that the Luxemburg deal safeguards British involvement in European economic management, writes Stephen Castle. Liberation, the radical French daily, said Mr Blair behaved “with a stubbornness and a tone Margaret Thatcher would have been proud of”.The row overshadowed the historic nature of a summit that fired the starting gun on a move to bring five of the former Eastern bloc countries and Cyprus into the EU early in the next century.

He advised Mr Blair to use less charm and rhetoric and negotiate more rationally and reasonably.The episode is a setback for Mr Blair’s efforts to portray himself as a leader in Europe rather than the leader of Europe’s awkward squad France’s Le Figaro accused him of “obstructionism”. Tony Blair returned from the Luxemburg summit last night amid rancour over Britain’s abrasive stance and after a reproof from Europe’s senior statesman, Helmut Kohl. The ill-feeling threatens to mar Britain’s six-month presidency of the European Union, starting in January. The Government is also hoping that some students have merely delayed their applications because they are uncertain about details of the new funding arrangements.Dr Kim Howells, junior education and employment minister, told the Commons last week that, even in previous years, 25 per cent of applications have been made after the closing date. UCAS, the Vice-Chancellors’ Committee and the Standing Conference of Principals have just sent out 400,000 leaflets to schools, reminding potential applicants that it is not too late to apply. The leaflets also explain the financial rewards associated with a university degree.Tony Higgins, UCAS chief executive, said that the organisation would make no comment until after the deadline.. They say that the abolition of grants for living costs and their replacement by a loan is more likely to deter applicants than the introduction of tuition fees.Ministers will deny that the decline in numbers is serious, and portray it as a small drop, most of which can be explained, they say, by the 26,000 extra students believed to have gone to university this year to avoid paying tuition fees.Universities offered places for 310,000 students this autumn, but 336,000 were admitted.

The figures sent to universities show that the number of overseas and EU applicants is up, suggesting that the figure for home applicants may be even lower than the Government fears.New universities appear to have suffered the most, with applications for some down by as much as a quarter. Ministers are bracing themselves for an announcement this week of a sharp fall of around 30,000 university applications after the Government’s decision to charge tuition fees of pounds 1,000 a year from next September. Tomorrow is the deadline for applications, and confidential figures sent out to universities at the end of last week suggest that the fall could be as much as between eight and 10 per cent – unless, that is, there is an unprecedented rush of applications this weekend.
Officials at the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) were working through the weekend to clear piles of last-minute applications. Though the existence of Mr Robinson’s offshore trust was first disclosed in the Independent on Sunday two weeks ago, Mr Robinson’s friends believe that Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers have begun a crusade to oust him from office..