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BY ANDREW CAVE

PUBLIC place smoking bans are spreading like wildlife these days, with one country after another drawing up rules preventing tobacco use where it could expose non-smokers to second-hand smoke.

In the European Union (EU), this year, public place smoking bans have been introduced in England, Estonia and Finland, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) scientists are investigating developing genetically modified feed vegetables engineered to produce healthy long-chain fatty acids, which could nourish broiler chickens and beef cattle. The idea has come in the EU’s Lipgene project, which aims to increase the amount of these acids in EU human diets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced England’s Staffordshire cheese, Spanish cauliflower Coliflor de Calahorra; German grated horseradish Bayerischer Meerrettich and Bayerischer Kren; and German table carp Holsteiner Karpfen have been granted geographical indication protection within the European Union (EU).…

BY MONICA DOBIE

RESEARCHERS from the University of Leeds, England, have developed a way to turn vegetable sludge into hydrogen-rich gas. The process mixes glycerol with steam at controlled temperatures, separating the waste product into hydrogen, water and carbon dioxide with no residues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LEVEL of incineration and recycling of municipal waste within Britain is as low as former communist countries in eastern Europe, a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report has concluded. In an assessment the 27 European Union (EU) member states, the EEA bracketed Britain with Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a public sector-dominated investment package of GBPounds 44 million to help develop Newquay airport, in Cornwall, southwest England. Pounds 19.5 million will come from European Union funds, with the remainder being covered by UK government funding agencies and borrowing.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester, northwest England, have developed high-tech, battery-powered textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark without a reflective light source.

These electroluminescent (EL) yarns, invented by the university’s William Lee Innovation Centre (WLIC) have the potential to be incorporated into clothing worn by cyclists, joggers and pedestrians.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEED to limit particulate matter in Britain and continental western Europe has been underlined by the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest assessment of pollution in Europe. In its fourth annual environmental health check of Europe, central Asia and Asiatic Russia, the agency concluded that much of western, central and south east Europe, especially urban areas, "experience daily average PM10 concentrations in excess of 50 ?g/m3…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal rules that insist European Union (EU) students wanting to study in a foreign EU state must continue a course subject they have already begun in their home country, if they want to receive a grant from the government of the country where they normally live.…

Monica Dobie

Manchester

Researchers at the University of Manchester, northwest England, have developed high-tech, battery-powered textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark without a reflective light source.

These electroluminescent (EL) yarns, invented by the university’s William Lee Innovation Centre (WLIC) have the potential to be incorporated into clothing worn by cyclists, joggers and pedestrians.…