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NITRATES CASE
BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is being threatened with fresh legal action over its failure to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling concerning ground waters and surface freshwaters affected by nitrate pollution. These proceedings could result in London being given massive recurring fines of up to Euro 100,000 a day, until it obeys the ECJ.…
STATE AID DECISIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given the go ahead for the British government to grant Euro 10 million, (Pounds 6.4 million), in state aid to two coal mines, operating losses for 2000 and 2001. The money will go to Longannet Mine of Mining (Scotland) Ltd, (Pounds 5.4 million), and Aberpergwm Colliery of Anthracite Mining Ltd, Wales, (Pounds 1 million).…
FOOT AND MOUTH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted the foot and mouth disease inspired ban on exports of pigmeat from parts of the UK, namely most of Scotland, bar Dumfries and Galloway, eastern England, and parts of north Wales. The ban for Northern Ireland was lifted in June.…
INFO SECURITY CONFERENCE
BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
THE THIRD annual Information Security Solutions Europe conference has opened at the QE2 centre in London against a background of heightened tensions in the Internet community arising from the terror attacks on the US and a recent world-wide decline in investment in B2B activities.…
MINK CULL
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s LIFE-Nature programme is meet half the costs of a pounds 1.65 million scheme to eradicate the American mink from the Western isles of Scotland where it is beginning to decimate important bird populations. Remaining cash will come from Scottish National Heritage and others.…
SAFEGLASS REVIEW
BY DEIDRE MASON
SAFEGLASS SAFETY SMASH-BOX GLAZING
PLUSES: Prevents people injuring themselves if they have to break the glass
MINUSES: Could attract vandals no longer afraid of cutting themselves
VERDICT: An innovative product with real benefits for public and emergency services alike
COSTS: Depends on quantity and application but can work out cheaper in cases where toughened glass is used, for instance on buses for window-breaking hammers
Contact: Avril McNeill, Marketing Manager
Safeglass (Europe) Ltd,
Whitworth Building,
Scottish Enterprise technology park,
East Kilbride,
G75 0QD,
Scotland
Tel: +440 (0)1355 272438
e-mail: avril@safeclass.co.uk…
PC Bodyguard
Alan Osborne
Contact:
Calluna Technology
One Blackwood Road, Eastfield, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 4NP, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1592 630810 Fax: +44 (0)1592 630168
Website: webmaster@calluna.com
Price: £120
Ever pressed the wrong computer key and destroyed the work of a day, a week or even months ?…
NETA
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) introduced in the UK on 27
March have begun smoothly, in spite of warnings earlier in the year from
electricity companies that insufficient testing of the system had taken
place and that market conditions were not favourable.…
BAMFIELD PIECE
Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.
Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…