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5 results out of 285 results found for 'Scotland'.

MINK CULL

1st Jul 2001

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s LIFE-Nature programme is meet half the costs of a pounds 1.65 million scheme to eradicate the American mink from the Western isles of Scotland where it is beginning to decimate important bird populations. Remaining cash will come from Scottish National Heritage and others.…

SAFEGLASS REVIEW

1st May 2001

BY DEIDRE MASON
SAFEGLASS SAFETY SMASH-BOX GLAZING

PLUSES: Prevents people injuring themselves if they have to break the glass

MINUSES: Could attract vandals no longer afraid of cutting themselves

VERDICT: An innovative product with real benefits for public and emergency services alike

COSTS: Depends on quantity and application but can work out cheaper in cases where toughened glass is used, for instance on buses for window-breaking hammers

Contact: Avril McNeill, Marketing Manager

Safeglass (Europe) Ltd,

Whitworth Building,

Scottish Enterprise technology park,

East Kilbride,

G75 0QD,

Scotland

Tel: +440 (0)1355 272438

e-mail: avril@safeclass.co.uk…

PC Bodyguard

1st May 2001

Alan Osborne
Contact:

Calluna Technology

One Blackwood Road, Eastfield, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 4NP, Scotland

Tel: +44 (0)1592 630810 Fax: +44 (0)1592 630168

Website: webmaster@calluna.com

Price: Â£120

Ever pressed the wrong computer key and destroyed the work of a day, a week or even months ?…

NETA

1st Apr 2001

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) introduced in the UK on 27

March have begun smoothly, in spite of warnings earlier in the year from

electricity companies that insufficient testing of the system had taken

place and that market conditions were not favourable.…

BAMFIELD PIECE

1st Mar 2001

Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.

Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…