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Celebrity chef urges MPs to support food waste bill

2016-01-29 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has urged MPs to support a Labour bill designed to reduce supermarket food waste. Labours shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, Kerry McCarthy, will on Friday take her food waste (reduction) bill for its second reading in the House of Commons. The supermarkets need to step up and massively reduce the waste they cause in the food supply chain and thats exactly what the food waste (reduction) bill calls on them to do,...

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MPs call for formal separation of BT, Openreach

2016-01-25 10:56:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Despite GBP 1.7 billion of taxpayers' money being used to subsidise the construction of UK high-speed broadband, there are still 5.7 million people who cannot access the internet at the minimum 10 Mbps speed required by Ofcom, according to a new report from MPs. The 'BroadBad' report from the British Infrastructure Group (BIG) also shows that 42 percent of SMEs have problems with their internet connection, at an estimated GBP 11 billion cost to the British economy. The MPs want Ofcom to take radical action over the 'natural monopoly' held for too long by BT Openreach and for the country to stop being held by back by BT's 'lack of ambition and underinvestment'. It calls for the UK to start converting to a fully fibre network to avoid being left behind by other nations. The MPs insist that it is time for a formal separation of BT from Openreach to encourage more competition and a better service for every internet user and for the benefit of the UK economy.

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Local MPs welcome Singapore Airlines to Wellington

2016-01-20 03:48:08| Airlines - Topix.net

Paul Foster-Bell, National List MP based in Wellington Central Chris Bishop, National List MP based in the Hutt Brett Hudson, National List MP based in Ohariu Local National MPs Paul Foster-Bell, Chris Bishop and Brett Hudson are excited by the announcement today that Singapore Airlines services from Wellington to Canberra will commence in September. They are delighted that there will be a new connection to Singapore, opening up another way for New Zealanders to be able to do business with that country and the wider Asian region.

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MPs' concern over Eurostar stake sale

2016-01-20 01:04:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The sale of the UK government's stake in the Eurostar train service is "further evidence" of assets being undervalued, the Public Accounts Committee says.

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