Day: 1 July 2005

Edie offers new personalised tender alerts service

Businesses can now get the jump on the competition by finding about new tenders and contracts the very day they are announced.

Welcome to water world – Britain gets that sinking feeling

Huge swathes of Britain could be swallowed up by the sea over the next 200 years according to a doomsday scenario painted by academics.

Big guns rolled out for NGO assault on G8

With the G8 summit about to begin pressure groups and aid agencies are lobbying hard, trying to get their voices heard to convince world leaders that climate change and global poverty should be urgent priorities.

Oil company fined £895,000 after refinery explosion

One of the world's biggest oil refiners has been fined £895,000 this week and ordered to pay costs of £218,854 after breaching health and safety legislation in two separate incidents.

Dirty air holds back climate change – scientists

Gallant efforts to cut pollution and clean up the air we breathe could be speeding up climate change, according to a report in science journal Nature.

Industry invited to let Government know how it’s getting on with the environment

Government has launched a PR offensive to try to persuade industry of the importance of reporting its impact on the environment, but once again fallen short of making it a statutory requirement.

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