The UK's consumer savings protection laws will be put to the test for the first time after the colapse of Iceland's Landsbanki, which had banking outlets in the UK under the name ICEsave. However it has emerged today...
The UK's biggest CO2 offenders have been revealed, and most of them are public buildings and tourist attractions.The Palace of Westminster and the Bank of England are among the worst. A new law to measure cardon...
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Any research including the words "cloak" and "impervious" is automatically awesome. Actually, even without those words of power, this is pretty cool."Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an "acoustic cloak", which could make objects impervious to sound waves.The...
Emmylou Harris has long been one of my favorites. She gives one heckuva concert, and above all else, she has always seemed real. Now a thoughtful profile confirms that Harris is, indeed, real--and has lived her own...
"A rare walnut table which was rescued from a skip has fetched £40,000 at auction. Shrewsbury-based auctioneers Halls said they and the owners of the flap-top table, a family from Powys, were delighted with the...
"A total of 921 feature films were produced in the 27 member states of the European Union in 2007, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory after a provisional data collection. Indians must be laughing at...
What a waste, sorting out paper, plastics and glass into separate containers at home, then council lorries collecting the recyclable rubbish on alternate weeks and then dumping the sorted materials in landfill sites...
"In the hunt for lost keys most people check under the sofa, in their jacket pocket and even back at the pub.
But student Chris Foster had to have his stomach x-rayed before he could find where he left his keys the...
"Shrek, star of three animated blockbusters, now has his own Christmas special, Shrek the Halls, which debuts in the US this week.
Cameron Diaz, who reprises her voice role as Princess Fiona, hopes the story of the grumpy-yet-lovable green ogre's first Christmas with family...
"Town halls would be forced to take action over petitions with more than 200 signatures under new proposals to devolve power to voters.
Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, is to publish a consultation paper detailing new rights to trigger changes in council policy. This...
"Saturday, May 12 2007 marks graduation at Virginia Tech the end of the media stake-out of Blacksburg Virginia. Since the April 16 shootings in Ambler Johnston and Norris Halls, every news organization from BBC to...
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The Democrats have to stop acting like the party of placation and the party of "nonbinding resolutions" if they want respect. No way will Bush and his crew take this lot seriously if they don't act from the starting point of Bush's incompetence as Commander-in-Chief. In other...
"The first student police officers in Sussex to receive their initial training from the University of Brighton graduated on 25 January at a ceremony in Worthing Assembly Halls. More than 50 police officers were...