The weakening of community life
Any doubts that our local communities are fracturing under the multiple pressures of modern life are dispelled by new research commissioned by the BBC. This shows that community life in Britain has weakened substantially over the past 30 years. Analysis of census data reveals how neighbourhoods in every part of the UK have become more socially fragmented and that even the weakest communities in 1971 were stronger than any community now.
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