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KEITH NUTHALL
THE UK government has been given permission by the European Commission to go-ahead with exempting certain environment-friendly services from its general climate change levy, ruling that because they promote environmental good-practice and public transport, the concessions should not be considered as illegal state aid.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE ADVISORY Committee on Paper and Wood Products of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has met to discuss issues related to climate change and the paper and wood products industry, and review recent progress made in forestry and the environmental certification of forest products.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PEOPLE who drink up to four alcoholic drinks-a-day are nearly half as likely to suffer from heart failure than non-drinkers according to a recent study.

The study, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researched the links between drinking and heart disease also concluded that people who drink one or more beverages containing alcohol per day are 62 per cent more likely to survive a heart attack than teetotallers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SO SWEEPING has been the foot-and-mouth tragedy in the UK, that British farmers might be forgiven for assuming that they have been singled out for retribution by the Almighty, in return for long forgotten sins.

This is far from being the truth, of course.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPULSORY minimum standards, for the treatment of asylum seekers within the European Union, have been proposed by the European Commission.

Using its new powers to table European legislation on justice and home affairs, the Commission has proposed that Member States provide a “minimum level of support with special help for the vulnerable,” such as unaccompanied children, torture victims and pregnant women.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN House of Commons could have paved the way for the introduction of warning labels on bottles and cans of alcoholic drinks, after government and opposition MP’s voted overwhelmingly 217 to 11 in favour of using the health warnings.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT on the world’s environmental concerns by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), has claimed that “tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates,” saying that “non-OECD regions, (developing countries), will lose another 10 per cent of their forests by 2020.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MAYBE not all of us would know the difference if we got served

bootleg vodka instead of Smirnoff in a pub, but make no mistake – this is happening on a wide scale and it amounts to a rip-off that is cheating drinkers of millions of dollars a year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EUROPE, in wine terms, has pedigree. It is, after all, the home of the longest established commercial wine-making tradition. But these days, its primacy is being challenged by colonial upstarts, in the shape of New World vineyards, and guess what; the new kids on the block seem to be ganging up on the oldsters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) is about to complete a new model computer system that will help it and other medical regulators effectively marshal the mountain of data regarding new pharmaceutical products and keep information up to date.…