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BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS have for the first time scientifically confirmed that eating a diet rich in red meat causes gout. According to a study published in the USA’s New England Journal of Medicine, gout is 41 per cent more likely to be suffered by consumers with the highest consumption of beef, pork and lamb, compared with those with the lowest consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of British Insurers (ABI) is pressing the UK Government to maintain its raised level of spending on flood defences, as it works towards its next public spending round announcement in the summer. Following the spate of disastrous floods in 2000, Whitehall in 2002 increased its annual spending on the problem by Pounds 150 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURATOM has released its 2002 report on inquiries carried out by its European Commission officials tasked with checking the safety and security of nuclear installations across the European Union (EU); although the paper’s conclusions was generally satisfactory, it notes a number of problems detected that required resolution.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A LOW-COST American air carrier has just set up a temporary retail shop in Boston to showcase its own wares that has been designed and furnished to look like one of its aeroplane cabins. Song, the low-fare unit run by Delta Air Lines, has opened the shop on a trial basis for two months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified sugar beet is between 15 and 50 per cent more environment-friendly than conventional beet, according to a University of Reading, England, study. It says that herbicide-resistant GM beet requires less weed killer and pesticide treatment, cutting tractor fuel used as a spin-off, reducing the crop’s impact on global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified sugar beet is between 15 and 50 per cent more environment-friendly than conventional beet, according to a University of Reading, England, study. It says that herbicide-resistant GM beet requires less weed killer and pesticide treatment, cutting tractor fuel used as a spin-off, reducing the crop’s impact on global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLANNED reform of the European Union’s (EU) Euro 12.5 million-per-year hop subsidy regime could push hop producers towards promoting speciality varieties, of interest to brewers seeking an edge in flavour and bitterness, a National Hop Association of England spokesman has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) pilot is combining wireless satellite broadband services with terrestrial local area networks (LANs) to bring high speed Internet access to rural areas in Britain. Working with the UK’s Avanti Communications, France’s Eutelsat and Rural Solutions – a British rural development group – the ‘Broadband Access for Rural Regeneration with DVB-RCS’ (BARRD) trial is about to begin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced the 2003 funding from its LIFE-Environment scheme, spending Euro 69 million across Europe, with money especially supporting integrated product production and novel waste management initiatives.

In the UK, Brussels has chosen projects that include a system for the recovery and recycling of X-Ray and other PET based films by JBR Recovery, of West Bromwich (Euro 1.7 million grant), a scheme for the bioabsorption of metals from abandoned mines by the University of Wales’ Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (Euro 667,000), and Wednesbury’s G & P Batteries’ automated battery breaking system helping end of life battery management (Euro 436,000).…