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The Government is set to hand an expanded role to Britain's nuclear industry and suggest more sites for new reactors as it unveils controversial guidelines for fasttracking major energy projects through the planning process. [read full story]
Departmental wrangling over "feed-in tariffs" scuppers Ed Miliband's aim to have policy in place by Copenhagen summit Ed Miliband's hopes of having a key government policy on renewable energy in place before the Copenhagen...
When the distinguished J. H. Bruce-Lockhart retired as headmaster of Sedbergh in 1954, he took the unusual step of identifying Michael Thornely as his successor. The chairman of the school governors, Viscount Bracken, endorsed...
Charles Walker was a distinguished civil engineer in Scotland and the Far East who is memorable as the man who tracked down the unmarked grave of the Scottish Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, who died in a Japanese prison camp in...
Elisabeth Söderström was one of the most natural performers in opera. She regarded herself as a storyteller; vocalism for its own sake did not interest her, and she often said that her own voice was nothing special. There she...
