UK Business News

The UK governments failure to support workers involved in the ’sit in’ at the Vestas wind turbine company in Newport on the Isle of Wight has ended with the factory bosses  winning a possession order against the remaining eleven workers still on site, involved in the protest.
The decision was greeted with boos and jeers by [...]

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The Energy Institute (EI) have announced the recipient of the 72nd Melchett Award, is Andrew Warren FEI, Director, of the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE). Mr Warren was presented with his award by Dr Joanne Wade FEI, EI Honorary Secretary, at an evening reception in London.

Andrew Warren has [...]

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Software firm Micro Drainage have said that a computer model that it has built for West Berkshire town of Thatcham had corresponded with the location of households submitting claims for last summers storm.
Managing Director Aiden Millerick claims that in just two weeks, “We identified the major pluvial flow paths, the vulnerable areas, the speed and [...]

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Jaguar Land Rover are creating six hundred jobs at its plant in Gayden, Warwickshire, as part of a £700million project to develop less thirsty, less polluting cars.
The EU directive that average emission for all new cars will be reduced to 120 grams per kilometre by 2012 or face a per gram penalty, has sent the [...]

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John Hutton has outlined his vision of a new era of power generation for the UK, which he
likens to the North Sea oil boom.
But unlike invisible, non-invasive offshore drilling, Nuclear Reactors are always local to
quite a few people even if located in areas of sparse population.
In a reverse of Malthusian gloom predicted prior to the [...]

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