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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

FROM toxic t-shirts to virtual fitting rooms, defamatory garments and compostable shoes, the clothing and textiles industry in 2012 was anything but dull.

The year started off with workers at Mexican textile firm Hilaturas Tejidos y Acabados Xtra ending a four-year strike in January after agreeing on a new wage deal with its owners – proving that sticking to your guns long enough can actually pay off.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

POLICE are celebrating Britain’s first conviction and sentencing for land banking fraud. Two men were convicted on five counts of money laundering and sentenced December 6 to seven and six years by a London court. In a GBP 3 million scam over three years to late 2009, they conned 300-plus people into buying land supposedly in prime development areas, but really on farmland, hillsides, and in protected areas, with no hope of planning permission.…

BY MARK ROWE

For decades the car industry in the developed world has expanded remorselessly. But a recent flurry of academic papers has come to the conclusion that the West (and other rich countries such as Japan and Australia) may have hit a plateau known as ‘peak car’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON, AND JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

EUROPE’S automakers have reacted with ill-disguised dismay to the European Union’s (EU) decision (announced last Thursday) to begin negotiations with Japan for a free trade agreement (FTA). The motor industry’s trade association ACEA said "independent studies have shown that this deal is a one-way street as far as the automobile industry is concerned."…

BY ROBERT STOKES

ELCORE GmbH, a German maker of fuel cell micro-CHP (FC mCHP) units currently has only a few being put through their paces in homes in its domestic market. It has high hopes, though, of selling plenty on a fully commercial basis from late next year before spreading its wings into other European markets.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO, IN LONDON

WITH as many as 400,000 people with dementia still going undiagnosed in the UK according to the Alzheimer’s Society, nurses can play a crucial role in spotting early signs of the disease.

But there are real challenges here – especially when nurses receive "very little" dementia awareness education, and "sometimes only one educational session during their three years of training," said Ian Weatherhead, lead nurse of Admiral Nursing DIRECT, the national helpline of Dementia UK.…

A NEW generation of intelligent, sensor-rich robots assisting in surgery have now radically re-defined the role of nursing, say experts.

Shirley Martin, nurse practitioner in surgical technology at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, told the Nursing Standard her role has become a “highly specialised” one, “requiring an additional pair of eyes and ears to foresee technical issues that may occur before, during, or after” a robotic surgery.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

MALE or female, people seeking medical attention in Britain are entitled to the same level of nursing, no matter what their gender – but what about those caught in between? For some Britons identifying as transgendered (someone who expresses themselves in a different gender to the one they were assigned at birth – either through their attire or name change) or transsexual (someone who has undergone a permanent, surgical gender change), a ‘regular’ visit to hospital or clinic can come with its complications.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON, LEE ADENDORFF, IN LUCCA, ITALY; MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS; DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS; ANDREW KURETH, IN WARSAW; AND JOHN PAGNI, IN HELSINKI

THE POTENTIAL of micro-CHP (combined heat-and-power) for industrial businesses, residential complexes and individual homes is becoming increasingly clear across Europe.…

BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS

THE GREEK economic crisis may provide the perfect backdrop for money laundering. Dr Ioannis Filos, professor of Auditing at Panteion University in Athens and director of the Greek chapter of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) told the Money Laundering Bulletin that "it is obvious… that the financial stress is a big threat for someone to get involved in wrong actions/fraud/corruption."…