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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).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is one of a number of EU countries being threatened by the European Commission with actions in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for non-compliance with EU waste treatment and water laws. The potential legal action over waste management arises from a ruling by the ECJ in 2002 when the UK was condemned for failing to adopt waste management plans that conformed to the EU’s framework waste, hazardous waste and packaging waste directives.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A UNIVERSITY of Warwick team trialling scented plastic mousetraps have found that mice are more readily lured to their doom with chocolate, than devices laced with the scent of vanilla or cheese. Now, Sorex, a Cheshire, England, pest control company, says it will be marketing a new mousetrap, made out of plastic and infused with chocolate essence, bringing a new meaning to the phrase "death by chocolate."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY and Spain are living outside their means when it comes to fresh water abstraction, according to a new water report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). It brands these large European Union countries as being “water stressed,” exploiting more than 20 per cent of their annual fresh water supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY year it seems, the international community has a pet topic in which it is fashionable to promote good behaviour, and this year the favoured cause seems to be water conservation. The World Bank, the UN Environment Programme and others have all produced weighty tomes on the need to conserve drinking water stocks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FORGET all those stories you used to hear about weak regulation and cosy financial set-ups in Britain’s offshore dependencies such as the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the crown colony of Gibraltar. They may once have been good places to launder money but not any more they aren’t.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEUROTICS and introverts often find it harder to quit smoking than extroverted happy people, according to research from the University of Warwick, England. It suggests that improving the social skills of these smokers may be more effective as an anti-smoking aid than a nicotine patch.…