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Low ranking for Britain’s quality of life

07 January 2010

The Quality of Life Index, created by International Living magazine, rates countries on nine categories including culture and leisure, the......

Manufacturing at two year high

05 January 2010

The latest figures from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) revealed that in December manufacturing......

National event to boost science and engineering

22 December 2009

The Big Bang UK: UK Young Scientists’ and Engineers’ Fair will take place around the country during Science Week in March 2010. More than 13, 000......

Baldrige winners 2009 announced

17 December 2009

The winners, announced by US president Barack Obama and US commerce secretary Gary Locke, are: • Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies,......

Simplification saves businesses billions

15 December 2009

The government’s simplification programme has introduced 280 regulatory changes to try to cut out unnecessary paperwork over the last 12 months. The......

Website to rank council services condemned as ‘woolly’

10 December 2009

The Oneplace site, which went live yesterday (9 December 2009), will allow users to rate public bodies on subjects such as infant mortality, child......

NHS IT programme budget cut

08 December 2009

Andy Burnham told the House of Commons that the NHS could not function without the £12bn programme but that the government was in discussion with......

Increased funding for trainee engineers

04 December 2009

The increase is the government’s initial response to recommendations made in the Gibson Review of Engineering Construction, a study of productivity......

Cameron slams ‘over the top’ health and safety

02 December 2009

In his speech to the think tank Policy Exchange, Mr Cameron claimed that the spirit of health and safety had ‘gone seriously wrong’ over the last......

Storage of deadly powder at Sellafield labelled ‘absurd’

26 November 2009

The 100 tonnes of plutonium that is being stored at Sellafield is ‘ludicrous’, claims the British Pugwash Group (BPG) In a BPG report, the......

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