Marks & Spencer (M&S) will unveil a new property lease policy at next week's Ecobuild 2013 (5th – 7th March). All new M&S stores will now have ‘green' clauses as standard enabling landlords and tenants to better manage a ...
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The projects, which will be piloted in Scotland, offer people a range of incentives, such as money back, discount vouchers or vouchers for donations to charities, for recycling glass, aluminium and plastic (PET) drinks containers. The aim ...
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Now a partnership between Oxfam, Marks and Spencer and Glasgow Caledonian University is setting out to cut the huge amount of clothes which end up in landfill. For the first time, a University partner has hosted a ‘shwopping’ ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, have developed a new method to make package Left to right: Dr Hugh Potts, Ian Muirhead and Dr Declan Diver d food safer for consumers and more long-lived on the shelf by ...
EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, today announced that 4G will be switched on in a further 27 towns across the country by June 2013, expanding superfast coverage to more than 65 UK towns and cities in total. The ...
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Rock Spring Ventures has launched a unique £50m venture capital fund focusing on early-stage life science and health technology companies. Based in Scotland, the new fund has secured early commitments for more than half of its ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed a new prototype plasma technology that can generate ozone to kill pathogens in packaged food, while extending the shelf life of products. The researchers, Declan Diver and Hugh Potts, ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have developed a new prototype system, which uses plasma to convert oxygen inside sealed packaging into ozone in order to kill germs in packaged food. According to the scientists, the ...
Hamleys is hosting a number of Wreck-It Ralph workshops in stores. Kids can use sweets such as marshmallows, jelly beans, liquorice all sorts, pink wafers and more to create their own 'mini' Sugar Rush racing car just like Vanellope von ...
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Glasgow City Council is set to research street lighting’s impact on criminal activity, after receiving a £24 million technology grant. The city beat 30 other UK cities to claim a £24 million prize as a result of ...
UK - Ambersphere Solutions will stage a series of regional open days throughout 2013. The first one will take place in Glasgow on Tuesday 19 February between 11am and 4pm at the Scottish Ballet's headquarters (Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, ...
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With the target of drawing academic and industrial expertise together to address the solid-state lighting/electronics interface and its implications for custom-controlled lighting systems, Scotland’s University of Strathclyde is ...
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The news comes as the Canadian labelling giant announced that it had plans to buy two business units from Avery Dennison for $500 million cash. In a statement about pulling out from the John Watson & Co deal, CCL said that both parties ...
The national system was well supplied Thursday morning with reduced reliance on storage withdrawals but prompt prices on the UK's NBP gas trading hub rose as colder temperatures are expected for Friday and to push into February. At ...
Glasgow is to receive £24m of government investment to become "a city of the future". Glasgow is to host the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Future Cities Demonstrator’ for showing the impact technology can ...