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Mitsubishi announces 5% price rise
AIR-CONDITIOINING manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric is raising the price of its City Multi VRF equipment by between 3-5% to cope with the global rise in the cost of manufacturing.
Robert Welch settles with M&S over cutlery pack
Cutlery designer Robert Welch has reached a settlement with Marks & Spencer in a dispute over look-alike packaging.
In a joint statement the companies said:
"Cutlery and gifts specialist Robert Welch Designs Ltd and Marks & Spencer plc have reached a confidential settlement to the satisfaction of both parties involving a design dispute...(more)."
Government acts to stem housing crisis
A series of further measures and reforms designed to help alleviate the current challenges in the housing market and to support the vital delivery of more homes over the long-term, were announced yesterday by Housing Minister Caroline Flint.
EXCLUSIVE: Color Expert buys Robert J Hall
Parent company of HallsBeeline and Stanley Decorating team announces acquisition by German-based painting and decorating tools firm.
The agreement will see Color Expert take sole ownership of both HallsBeeline and Stanley decorating products divisions, including offices, warehouses and manufacturing facilities on both Leeds and Morecambe.
How to make Absinthe, the easy way
This recipe is based on a few on the net that I found, and merged into one. The active ingredient, Wormwood or Absinthium (Artemisia absinthium) can be found in specialist shops, mail-order, or on a holiday to North Africa, for example.
Virgin voice activated misery
Getting hot under the collar with Virgin's new voice-automated booking and enquiry telephone system? Can't speak to an operator? Getting a message 'Sorry, due to a technical issue we are currently unable to process your request' on the website? Just what is happening to Virgin trains?
Food firms pledge to cut mileage
Companies behind some of the biggest brands on UK supermarket shelves have pledged to slash the environmental impact of transporting their goods.
About 40 food and drink companies have signed up to the Food and Drink Federation's (FDF) Environmental Checklist and Clause for Greener Food Transport.
Business urged to avoid flights
Businesses across the world should switch to video conferencing to cut emissions from transport.
That was the recommendation from Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as he spoke to members of the All-party Parliamentary Sustainable Aviation Group on Thursday.
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June 2008
Cleaner air 'threatening' Amazon
Cleaner air is threatening the survival of the Amazon rainforest according to a group of prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists.
February 2008
Some February Carnival of Culture dates for your diary
Some dates to brighten up your February!
Sat, 2nd of Feb, 11-5 - Creative workshop day - Carnival/Maggot
material will need creative hands - Gregson - Meeting Room upstairs
Wed, 6th of Feb, 7.30pm - Public networking meeting - Gregson -
Meeting room upstairs
Sat, 16th of Feb - Street Performance - City Centre
Wed, 20th of Feb, 7.30pm - Public networking meeting - Gregson -
Meeting room upstairs
Sat, 23rd of Feb - Flyering town - City Centre
If you would like to get involved, or just want more details, then see http://carnivalofculture.wordpress.com/about/
Don’t be shy, all are very welcome!
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Doomsday vault receives its first seeds
An international seed bank built to safeguard the genetic diversity of the planet's crop plants through and global calamity - including the worst ravages of climate change - has received its first seeds. The Svalbard vault will be used as a seed library of last resort.
January 2008
E.coli in Irish drinking water 'unacceptable'
More than a third of private drinking water supplies and 8% of public water supplies in Ireland were contaminated with E.coli during 2006-07. Report identifies more than 300 public water supplies to be assessed.
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November 2007
Cron Job Problems
Oh, the irritation of Cron jobs. Written about as if it’s simplicity itself in most places, trying to set these up using cpanel on a paid-for-hosting site can be rather tricky. And the cpanel documentation isn’t very helpful, basically just informing me that I should be an expert linux user before even thinking about Cron jobs…
Amazon.co.uk - where's my stuff?
Trouble with an Amazon.co.uk delivery? CDs not turned up? Ignoring your emails? Read on... I used to love Amazon. I used to buy a lot of books and computer games from them. But no more... Never again! Why? Because they recently took 15 days to deliver a book to me, and their customer service is the worst I've encountered since Talktalk, and that's saying something.
Ryanair Refunds after cancelled flights
How do I get my money back from a cancelled Ryanair flight? They can be difficult to contact, and their website is not aimed at helping you very much...
Students see a great future for bins
Brabantia has teamed up with the University of the West of England in Bristol to run a design project to find the kitchen bin of the future. The project will be undertaken by final-year students on the university's product design programmes, and starts this month with a briefing by Brabantia managers. Students will look at different aspects of waste management such as how the kitchen bin has evolved, new technologies in waste storage and environmental aspects relating to recycling household rubbish.
Hippo rubbishes industry's use of skips
Hippos are nothing to be scared of- in fact the building services industry can now embrace this new weapon in the war against waste. Long gone could be the days of unwieldy, ugly-looking skips residing over construction activities now that an eco-bag known as the Hippobag is the new kid on the housing block.
TP acquisition establishes their 7th brand
Travis Perkins have announced they have entered into an agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Tile Giant (Holdings) Ltd and all its subsidiary companies.
Brian Walden dies aged 69
Brian Walden, managing director of B W Manufacturing (Plastics) Ltd of Grimsby, has died following a two-year illness at the age of 69. A fellow of the Institute of Directors, Mr Walden founded B W Manufacturing in 1975 and built the business from supplying a small range of self-adhesive hooks to the hardware trade to its present day range of injection moulded furniture components to the flat-pack industry.
Cooling views sought for skills review
The views of HVAC professionals are wanted to revise the cooling industry's national occupational standards (NOS) and S/NVQs. The sector skills council for building services engineering, SummitSkills, has drawn up a draft set of recommendations to improve the UK's NOCs.
More red buses to go green in London
London's leaders are aiming to further slash emissions of the city's sizeable bus fleet, starting with a trial of ten hydrogen vehicles. On Tuesday, Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, announced plans to trial five hydrogen fuel cell buses and five buses powered by hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engines.
September 2007
Rising CO2 could lead to rising rivers as plants lose thirst
River flow increases already predicted by climate change models could be underestimating the scale of the problem, as rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere will make plants less thirsty, say scientists.
August 2007
Big Brother's ac provider sees operating profit soar by 44%
The Vp group, owners of Climate Hire, report its operating profit has risen dramatically by 44% to 16.5m for the quarter ended March 31 2007.
The £16.5m figure is up from £11.5m reported for 2006.
