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VIDEO: A walk down Britain's cheapest street
2013-04-23 18:23:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
More than 600 people have expressed early interest in buying run down homes in Stoke-on-Trent for 1 each, the city council has said.
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Britain's OFGEM Sets Tough Targets to Improve Electricity Network Services for Consumers
2013-04-17 19:48:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Ofgem last month published its new framework for electricity distribution networks, which will run from 2015 to 2023. read more
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Britain's love affair with bottled water - a national scandal?
2013-04-11 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: The UK bottled water industry releases 350,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year One of Britain's leading authorities on water supplies has branded the bottled water industry a scam, backing campaigners' claims of wasted millions and environmental pollution at a time when tap water standards have never been higher. Professor Paul Younger, Rankine Chair of Engineering at Glasgow University, has highlighted growing fears that our increasing consumption of bottled water is...
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Britain's gas price soars to record on pipeline closure
2013-03-22 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain's wholesale gas prices surged to a record high on Friday after one of its main gas import pipelines shut down unexpectedly, exposing the country's vulnerability to foreign supplies. Britain is already grappling with a potential gas supply crisis as a late blast of winter depletes stored reserves, coal power plants close and pending maintenance in Norway threatens to further squeeze supply. Gas prices for within-day delivery spiked at 150 pence per therm early in the day, more than 50...
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Britain's farming crisis: 'People don't realise how tough everything is'
2013-03-16 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A few hours before I arrived at Kit Dean's dairy farm on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, near where North Yorkshire smudges into Cumbria, he took a call from his animal feed supplier. "I had to put them off again," he says. The bill, running into thousands of pounds, will have to remain unpaid. "They've put a stop on the account," says his wife, Jane, bluntly. "I don't know how we're going to afford to buy the feed we need through the winter." We are at the table in their handsome,...
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