Bournemouth and Poole beaches achieve Blue Flag status once again 12:10am Wednesday 22nd May 2013 in News By Diana Henderson Bournemouth and Poole beaches achieve Blue Flag status once again POOLE and Bournemouth beaches have made a big contribution to the south wests boast to have the most award winning sandy bays in the country. Four Poole beaches and four at Bournemouth are among 23 in the south west entitled to fly the prestigious Blue Flag in the Keep Britain Tidy 2013 awards. Continue reading
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55 beaches meet tough new standards
More than 50 English beaches have met tough new EU standards to receive Blue Flag awards for 2013. And a further 113 beaches in England are clean enough to get Seaside Awards (formerly Quality Coast Awards) Continue reading
Health care workers sickened by SARS-like virus
NEW YORK (AP) In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the 20 deaths attributed to the virus. There have been no deaths reported in France and Qatar, only in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany and Britain. The story also said that the spread to health care workers was new Continue reading
Best beaches in the UK
Despite all its lousy weather and rain, Britain still has some of the greatest beaches in the world. After all, millions and millions of years ago, Britain was once a tropical paradise and those yellow sands and crystal clear waters still exist Continue reading
North East beaches blighted by rising tide of litter
A TIDE of litter is spoiling Britain’s beaches, a clean-up survey has shown. Continue reading
Northern Ireland has Britain's most littered beaches
LONDON, May 14 (UPI) — Scotland has more plastic bottles on its beaches than anywhere else in Britain, while Northern Ireland has the most general litter, an environmental group says. The Marine Conservation Society held its annual Beachwatch Big Weekend with volunteers picking litter off the sand from Lands End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland, The Scotsman reported. The group said Scottish beaches had an average of 110 plastic bottles per kilometer compared with an average of 75 for all of Britain. Continue reading
Scots beaches worst in Britain for bottle litter
SCOTTISH beaches are the worst in Britain for being polluted with discarded plastic drinks bottles. Continue reading
UAE criticizes Iran lawmakers' visit to disputed islands
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates criticized on Monday a visit by Iranian lawmakers to Gulf islands near the Strait of Hormuz at the center of a territorial dispute between the two countries, who are both trade partners and strategic rivals. Tension between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims in a Middle East shaken by two years of political turmoil has sharpened the 42-year-old dispute, complicating an ambivalent relationship in which national pride has vied uneasily with economic pragmatism. About 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil exports flow through Hormuz Continue reading
Rolls-Royce aerospace head quits as bribery fears mount
Britain’s biggest manufacturer is at the centre of a potentially explosive corruption scandal. Last September, Mark King, the head of civil aerospace at Rolls-Royce , was hosting some very special guests at the jet engine maker’s new state-of-the-art facility in Singapore. King was showing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (SES: E1:J91U.SI – news) around the giant Seletar campus, which makes Trent (BSE: TRENT.BO – news) engines for the Airbus A380 and the new Boeing (NYSE: BA – news) 787 Dreamliner. Continue reading
John Malone's Liberty Global Increases Stake in Top Dutch Cable Group
Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images Malone’s Liberty Global already controls the number two Dutch cable group, UPC. COLOGNE, Germany — John Malone’s cable group Liberty Global has further boosted its stake in Ziggo, the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, from 12.7 percent to 15 percent. Continue reading
Gene therapy to offer up to 1m heart patients new lease of life
The first attempt in Britain to treat heart failure patients with gene therapy is to begin within weeks, as part of study aimed at improving the lives of up to a million people in the UK who suffer the debilitating and potentially fatal condition. Click HERE to view ‘how to treat a failing heart’ graphic Two clinical trials are planned for a few dozen British patients who will be deliberately exposed to a virus carrying a synthetic copy of a human gene known to be involved in boosting heartbeat. The first trial will be carried out at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow Continue reading
Gene therapy to offer heart patients new lease of life
The first attempt in Britain to treat heart failure patients with gene therapy is to begin within weeks, as part of study aimed at improving the lives of up to a million people in the UK who suffer the debilitating and potentially fatal condition. Click HERE to view ‘how to treat a failing heart’ graphic Two clinical trials are planned for a few dozen British patients who will be deliberately exposed to a virus carrying a synthetic copy of a human gene known to be involved in boosting heartbeat. The first trial will be carried out at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow. Continue reading
The Magna Carta, A Short Story of Man’s Fight for Liberty – Video
The Magna Carta, A Short Story of Man's Fight for Liberty An experimental account of the historical growth of personal freedom and civil rights in Britain using prints, animated sequences, and re-enactment. Magna Ca.. Continue reading
Freedom Food pork for McDonald's
McDonald’s is to source all the pork for its UK menu from British farms that meet strict animal welfare criteria, it has announced. All sausage and bacon served in meals from McMuffins to premium salads will be 100% Freedom Food pork from farms meeting standards set down by animal welfare charity the RSPCA for how pigs are reared and treated. The company said the move will make it the UK’s second biggest buyer of pork from the Freedom Food scheme, which goes beyond industry standards and legislation to demand higher animal welfare. Continue reading
Liberty Global preparing Kabel Deutschland bid: report
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Tripologist: island beaches full of south-eastern promise
Batu Ferringhi beach in Malaysia. Photo: Alamy We are flying to Germany and want a stopover for five to eight days, preferably in south-east Asia, ideally not far from a beach and beautiful nature. We have three children (ages five, nine and 10). Continue reading
EU regulators to approve $15.8 billion Liberty, Virgin deal: sources
By Foo Yun Chee and Kate Holton BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – John Malone’s Liberty Global will get unconditional EU clearance for its $15.8 billion bid for Virgin Media, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday, in a move which pits the U.S. billionaire against rival Rupert Murdoch. Liberty Global, Europe’s No Continue reading
Falkland Islands mourn Thatcher, Argentines bitter over past
By Hilary Burke and Karina Grazina BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Falkland Islanders mourned Margaret Thatcher on Monday, revering her as their liberator after a 1982 invasion by Argentine forces, but many Argentines bitterly recalled her role in defending the South Atlantic territory. Flags flew at half-staff on the Falklands after news of Thatcher’s death on Monday aged 87. Continue reading
Obama: Thatcher was champion for freedom and women
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama says former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was both a great champion of freedom and an example to women everywhere. In a statement issued Monday by the White House, Obama said Britain’s first woman prime minister showed “our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.” Obama says many Americans remember Thatcher, who died Monday from a stroke at age 87, standing “shoulder to shoulder” with President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War. He says she showed then that leaders don’t have to be swept along by the currents of history, but can shape them “with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will.” Continue reading
Will they site them on the beaches ? D-Day for veterans’ fight to stop Normandy wind farms
For nearly 70 years, visitors to the D-Day beaches have stared out to sea and recalled the moment when one of the largest fleets ever assembled emerged from the Channel mist on 6 June 1944. Continue reading