Peers voted in favour of an amendment to the Children and Families Bill which would allow the quick introduction of plain packs if it became government policy. James Lowman, ACS chief executive, said: “If the government becomes ...
Tags: Tobacco Industry, Plain Packaging
Government incentives for a pair of proposed nuclear reactors could cost U.K. taxpayers as much as £17.62 billion, thus exceeding the reactors' projected cost. The EC figure is a preliminary estimate included in an initial report to ...
Tags: nuclear generation
Nations that are considering nuclear energy must grapple with its high capital costs and Fukushima-scale risk. An energy-policy riptide along the English Channel shows how unpredictable the calculations can be: Both France and the United ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Nuclear Plants, Energy
Fang Ying’s December wish list of Louis Vuitton handbags and Chanel perfume is not only for Christmas. Fang, 33, a secretary working in Shanghai, writes one every month for friends and family traveling abroad. Fang is not alone. ...
Tags: handbags, perfume, Luxury Spending
Intelligence agencies across Europe have been developing their own mass internet and phone surveillance capabilities in partnership with the UK's GCHQ electronic intelligence agency. That is the latest claim to arise from the cache of US ...
Tags: Phone, smartphone
The United Kingdom has reiterated its openness to Chinese investment in the country's nuclear power industry, a senior British official has said. "Britain is the most open economy in the world, and that goes for our energy markets as ...
Tags: Nuclear Investment, Energy
Autonomous cars will start testing on public roads in the UK by the end of 2013 as part of a government plan to reduce traffic congestion in Britain. Planned as part of a £28 billion ($46.4 billion) investment by the Department for ...
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of Information Availability services, has signed a five year contract with Serco Group, a British government services company. This new arrangement will see SunGard take responsibility, on behalf ...
Tags: Serco, IT Infrastructure Transformation, Sungard Availability Services
Ancient use The ancient Egyptians wore wigs to shield their shaved, hairless heads from the sun. They also wore the wigs on top of their hair using beeswax and resin to keep the wigs in place. Other ancient cultures, including the ...
Tags: Wig, Wig History, Arts
Lighting seems very much to be the topic du jour across the channel as a Parisian creative arts centre has seen its dome fitted with 4,480 LED lights, in a scheme masterminded by London-based designer Tiphaine Treins. The designer spoke ...
Chris Bedford, managing director (MD) of Open Technology, which specialises in providing energy-saving lighting solutions, has said businesses should take the lead when it comes to changing our lighting habits, given that they stand to make ...
Tags: Lighting Revolution, Lighting
A police and crime commissioner in the UK has proposed scrapping speed limits in the country to force drivers to focus harder on road conditions. Norfolk PCC Stephen Bett (pictured main) has told the BBC he believes a plethora of road ...
Tags: Auto Parts, UK Police Commissioner
The British government has clashed with the European Union over an initiative surrounding the "right to be forgotten" online, arguing Britain should be able to opt out of the upcoming laws. The policy, part of the EU's General Data ...
A British government security group said Wednesday that it hasn't yet evaluated the security of BlackBerry 10 devices such as the Z10. The UK Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) statement was issued following a report Tuesday ...
Tags: British Government, Blackberry
A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman on Thursday said a report suggesting the defense agency is dumping BlackBerry devices was inaccurate, and that BlackBerry is still part of ongoing DoD mobile device deployment plans. The spokesman ...