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BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the European Union’s Community Tobacco Fund have been tabled by the European Commission, which wants to earmark half the money earned from deductions from tobacco growing premiums spent on anti-smoking campaigns and research. The Commission says Euro 18 and 27 million will be made available by respective two and three per cent deductions.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
TWO Australian single fathers have invented a child-tracking device that works indoors as well as out. Scott Rickaby and Mark Tunstall, researchers at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, say they were inspired to make the device by the abduction and killing of Merseyside toddler James Bulger almost ten years ago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DYNAMIC online forum on European energy policy has been launched by an international consortium; the European Union-funded INTUSER website contains information about current energy issues and questionnaires allowing specialists and the public to contribute to policy debates.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada

SPACE may be Star Trek’s final frontier, but in reality innovations used on rockets and satellites do not stay in orbit; they are often brought back to Earth where they have been used by auto-manufacturers to break their own technological boundaries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL agreement has been signed to develop a new combination anti-malaria drug. Called pyronaridine-artesunate, it will be jointly developed by the Tropical Diseases Research Programme, the Medicines for Malaria Venture and South Korea’s Shin Poong Pharmaceuticals. It could be registered by early 2006.…

BY FRITZ BRETT
COMPANIES building or expanding new plants, particularly those in the chemical and other potentially hazardous industries, may be able to minimise risk – and therefore insurance premiums – by using space-based imagery as a factor in their planning.…

KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION is important in the provision of water services, whether that be to prevent the contamination of supplies by a return of this summer’s floods, or to source drinking water for arid areas where ground reserves are running dry.…

Keith Nuthall
THE HIGH risk of healthcare workers worldwide becoming victims of violence has sparked four international organisations into drawing up guidelines advising managers on how to reduce the exposure of their staff to physical attack or threats.

These draft Framework Guidelines for addressing Workplace Violence in the Health Sector are being produced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), Public Services International (PSI) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN).…

BY MARK ROWE
AUSTRALIAN authorities have imposed restrictions on live exports after a spate of welfare disasters, which have involved thousands of sheep and cattle dying during shipment to the Middle East. Shippers will now have to supply detailed risk assessments for each shipment of animal.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has been given permission by the European Commission to extend its Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme, which supplies GBPounds 17 million a year in grants to encourage the development and take-up of energy efficient and low carbon technologies.…