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Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain

2013-05-22 23:04:21| Automakers - Topix.net

Fiat Industrial disputed as "absolutely false" reports Wednesday that Italy would lose 500 million euros in tax revenues if it moves its tax base to Britain after it completes a merger with its U.S.-based subsidiary CNH Global NV.

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Britain to ban porn from public Wi-Fi - Indiatalkies.com

2013-05-05 05:32:14| Wireless - Topix.net

London, May 4: Pornography is all set to be banned from Britain's public Wi-Fi networks by the year-end, Prime Minister David CameronA's childrenA's czar has announced.

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Why Britain is failing to cut its carbon footprint

2013-04-28 03:37:45| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Successive governments have made much of the fact that Britain's CO2 emissions have come down sharply in the past two decades. But a government advisory committee has laid bare these pretensions, revealing that when emissions generated by the production of the UK's imports are factored in, the country's carbon footprint is actually 10 per cent higher than in 1993. In a study of the impact of the UK's imports on its carbon output, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) reported a 40 per cent jump...

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Shale gas no certain panacea for Britain

2013-04-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Voice of Russia: A group of MPs has said that developing shale gas in the UK might not bring down energy prices in the same way it has in North America. They have also warned that developing shale gas would jeopardise the UKs ability to meet statutory climate targets. VoR's Tom Spender reports. Public concern It is too soon to tell if shale gas will solve the UKs energy problems. That is the view of the Energy and Climate Change committee, which says conditions in the UK are different from those in the...

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