David Cameron and Shadow Business Secretary Ken Clarke have welcomed Sir James Dyson’s Ingenious Britain report.
Last October Cameron asked Dyson – one of the world’s leading design engineers and entrepreneurs – to produce a report setting out proposals to make Britain the leading high tech exporter in Europe.
His report contains proposals to help us build this new economic model [...]
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Sir James Dyson sets out plans to boost high tech industry
More UK Ministry of Defence Blunders
If this report is to be believed, and it is very credible, our UK armed forces are steadily working their way towards being a Civil Defence Force armed with third rate weapons.
If this has resulted from the bonus culture within the MOD, the sooner the architects of this financial disaster are removed the better.
Certainly “open [...]
Caroline Spelman MP: The Government was woefully ill-prepared for the severe weather this week – because it sat on a report on contingency plans for five whole months
Caroline Spelman is Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Has anyone got a sense of déjà-vu about the current grit shortages and widespread disruption to the road network? The reason for that, is that this is exactly where we were in February last year. So how can we have got to this [...]
Cut price wholesalers wound up following Insolvency Service probe
Insolvency Service (South East)
A group of companies dealing in discount goods are wound-up in the public interest
Xorta management Limited
Xorta management (UK) Limited
Xorta Global Marketing [...]
President Barack Obama sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Excerpts of the President’s Address to the Nation
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to [...]
Eurostat – EU unemployment reached 9.3 percent in October, the highest for over a decade
Job figures fall as finance ministers prepare to meet
ANDREW WILLIS
01.12.2009 @ 17:26 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – New data released by the EU’s statistics office on Tuesday (1 December) shows a rise in the region’s unemployment, and comes one day before finance minister talks on measures to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
Eurostat said EU [...]
Barnsley Brickworks fined after schoolgirl killed by boulder
Release No: YH/431/09
A company was today fined after being convicted of failing to provide and maintain a suitable barrier around the boundary of a quarry where a 13-year old schoolgirl died.
On 26 April 2007, Amber Worth from Brierley, in Barnsley, and her friends gained access to Carlton Main Brickworks Limited at Carlton Brick, Clayburn Road, [...]
Royal Engineers to build temporary bridge in Cumbria
Defence – News Article
As a result of the damage caused to Cumbria’s infrastructure by severe floods last week, Royal Engineers are to begin construction of a temporary footbridge spanning the River Derwent in Workington today, Friday 27 November 2009.
Engineers from 20 Field Squadron, 36 Engineer Regiment, bridge the gap over the Vrbas River near Jajce, [...]