The Conservative Party has reiterated its plans to forge ahead with plain cigarette packaging legislation as well as promoting “clear food information”. In a section on health in its new manifesto, the party states: ...
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has cut duty on spirits and cider by 2% and froze duty on wine and slashed the price of beer by a penny a pint for the third year now. In the budget speech presented in the House of ...
Each variation of the jigsaw puzzle will contain 1,000 pieces and the boxes will be colour coded to reflect the different political parties. Jumbo Games' next Wasgij Imagine… puzzle will be based around the possible fictitious ...
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The Furniture Makers' Company has hosted its fourth annual Confederation Lunch in The Churchill Room at the House of Commons on March 26. The event was attended by industry's most prominent figures such as MPs to discuss the relevant issues ...
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The UK retail industry is signing up to a range of ambitious targets for reducing its impact on the environment, having beaten the previous set across all areas. Commitments to be announced at A Better Retailing Climate launch event ...
Held at the House of Commons, the launch event was attended by high profile representatives from industry and Government, along with educators and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) organisations. In the UK, fewer than one ...
IP Bill Passed to Protect UK Designers Who Face Design Theft Published on : Tuesday, January 21, 2014 Government has put its full weight behind an IP Bill, passed by the House of Lords in July and to be debated in the House of Commons ...
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Houses of Parliament members are increasingly using their smartphones and tablets as a work tool, the parliamentary head of ICT, Joan Miller, has claimed. Speaking at the Cloud World Forum in London Olympia today, Miller said that about ...
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A string of footballers and other celebrities have been accused of using an extravagant data centre construction scheme in a bid to avoid tax. The data centres, on the Cobalt business park just outside Newcastle, are completely empty two ...
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A major FTSE-100-listed mining company has revealed that it may have lost valuable corporate data after a laptop computer was taken during a domestic burglary, while it has also warned of a "potential loss of data" as a result of an alleged ...
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The judgment in the Twitter libel case between Lord McAlpine and Sally Bercow has been published, with the judge explaining fully his reasoning for finding against Bercow. The House of Commons' Speaker's wife Bercow had tweeted "Why is ...
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The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
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The Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) will be working in the UK on a new initiative entitled the Associate Parliamentary Group for Textile Manufacturing. “The formation of the new Group is to enable Parliamentarians from ...
The UK continues to struggle against cyber criminals with no clear victory in sight. That's what the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee heard from the cyber security industry as experts gave evidence about e-crime. "I don't think the ...
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Ofcom's auction of the 4G communications spectrum is to be investigated by the National Audit Office, amid claims that the process did not generate the intended revenue. The auction, carried out in June 2012, raised 2.3bn as mobile phone ...
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