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Foreigners pay 23bn for Britain's smartest companies
2013-09-08 05:15:34| Food - Topix.net
Takeovers of UK companies by foreign firms are at a six-year high, suggesting investors are increasingly looking to Britain for successful acquisitions.
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Scientists set to demolish Sellafield chimney on site of Britains worst nuclear accident
2013-09-06 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Demolition has begun on the site of Britains worst nuclear accident, as scientists are brought in to dismantle the infamous Sellafield chimney. The 110-metre structure on the old Windscale plutonium-producing plant at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria will finally be cleaned up more than half a century since a fire broke out in its graphite core, in late 1957. It is being dismantled after site managers said the radioactivity had now decayed to safe enough levels to work in. Steve...
Vodafone rally helps Britain's FTSE to rebound
2013-08-29 12:08:19| IT Services - Topix.net
Vodafone shares lifted Britain's top stock index on Thursday after the company confirmed it was in talks with Verizon Communications for possible disposal of its 45-percent stake in a joint venture.
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Britains Furor Over Fracking
2013-08-27 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The lovely green hills of the High Weald are Tory country, a corner of West Sussex full of affluent residents who commute to London and like their golf and ambles and thatched cottages. So it is a surprise, in this conservative heartland, to stumble on an encampment of hundreds of activists, foraging in the hedgerows for edible greens, sawing wood for fires, playing flutes and generally enacting a kind of mini-Woodstock. But peace and love are not the story. This is the heavily policed front line...
Britain's puffins at risk due to climate change
2013-08-26 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Puffins as well as other coastal species are under threat in Britain as erosion and climate change destroy their habitat, the country's National Trust warned on Friday. According to the organization, Britain's 8,050-mile coastline is already seeing rising sea levels, with projections suggesting waters could be half a meter higher than at present by 2100. In a bid to show how plants, animals and humans would have to live alongside "an increasing rate of environmental change", the Trust published...
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