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BY MONICA DOBIE
SCOTS may drink hard, smoke, and eat deep-fried pizzas with battered Mars bars, but obvious environmental factors do not explain why they are so prone to heart disease says a University of Edinburgh study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCOTS may drink hard, smoke, and eat deep-fried pizzas with battered Mars bars, but obvious environmental factors do not explain why they are so prone to heart disease says a University of Edinburgh study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW technology has been developed for nurses of dementia patients, using old films, photos and music to help them bring back lost memories to sufferers. Researchers at the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland, have developed the CIRCA, (Computer Interactive Reminiscence and Conversation Aid): a simple touch-screen with easy-to-follow instructions, which requires no IT experience.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BUCKFAST, the tonic wine that has been attacked by Scottish ministers for promoting teenage drunkenness is facing another political challenge, this time at the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels. The European Parliament is due to consider a directive on enriching food and drink with vitamins and other substances, that would – if passed unchanged – make Buckfast’s existing recipe illegal, along with those of other British tonic wines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BUCKFAST, the tonic wine that has been attacked by Scottish ministers for promoting teenage drunkenness is facing another political challenge, this time at the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels. The European Parliament is due to consider a directive on enriching food and drink with vitamins and other substances, that would – if passed unchanged – make Buckfast’s existing recipe illegal, along with those of other British tonic wines.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW whistle-blowers have hit the headlines as much as accountant Marta Andreasen who was suspended by the European Commission in 2002 after disclosing serious weaknesses in its bookkeeping system and has now just been formally sacked.

Of all those who have taken the brave and often lonely path of public disclosure, Ms Andreasen, as the Commission’s former chief accounting officer, is by far the most senior.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CHRIS Dickson, the Executive counsel of the Accountant’s Joint Disciplinary Scheme, spoke powerfully in defence of the European Commission’s sacked chief accountant Marta Andreasen at her disciplinary hearing in Brussels last month, Accountancy Age can reveal.

He represented her pro bono publico, appealing for her reinstatement in front of the entire outgoing Commission, a call that fell on deaf ears, with her former employers later ordering her dismissal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to help fund 109 environmental innovation projects in 18 EU member countries with Euro 76 million of grants from the European Union (EU) 2004 LIFE environment programme. It said the projects applied “ground-breaking technologies” to tackle environmental problems.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PERSONNEL managers may well consider the European Court of Justice (ECJ) a somewhat austere body, constantly engaged in arcane institutional and corporate matters. Think again. It can well be argued that the ECJ has had a more direct impact on the lives and work of the European Union’s 380 million citizens, including of course those in Britain, than any other single organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIJACKING of a Gallaher lorry with Pounds 1 million of cigarettes on the Northern Ireland-Ireland border has prompted the company to ferry tobacco from its Ballymena plant to Dublin, via Scotland and Liverpool, Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside has claimed.…