Jonathan Shaw

Tories pledge to end 'scandalous waste' of fish thrown back into sea

British fishermen would no longer have to throw millions of tonnes of edible fish back into the sea, under Tory proposals to be unveiled this week. The Conservatives will pledge to end the "scandalous waste" caused by rules...

Diabetics 'skip insulin to lose weight' (AAP)

A third of type one diabetics dice with danger by skipping insulin injections to shed weight, an Australian study has found. Research by Diabetes Australia Victoria has found that 33 per cent of patients skip insulin...

TreeHouse supports the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

TreeHouse, the national charity for autism education, submitted evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights earlier this week, supporting the full ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities....

Robot to process food samples in a jiffy

From correspondents in New South Wales, Australia, 11:30 AM IST Researchers have devised a robot to act as an artificial gut to process food samples at a fraction of the time and cost required by the standard human method. This...

New skills centre for South East

Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com The University of Greenwich (UoG) has become the latest academic institution to take a hand in vocational skills to aid manufacturing as a regional training centre opens up on...

Artificial gut reveals foods' GI

The finished product will be a compact, user friendly, bench- top device. Photo by: iStockphoto The CSIRO Food Futures Flagship has developed an automated instrument for accurately predicting glycemic index (GI) and resistant...

Closing time?

Could this be one of the last for another pub? Now, some of the county's biggest brewers say that Kent's pubs are under threat. According to the British Beer and Pub Association, during the third quarter of 2008, beer sales in...

Michael White's political briefing: Welfare reform is a painful process

Talk of welfare reform usually triggers strong emotions and yesterday's revamp of incapacity benefit (IB), a tough policy legacy from the Thatcher era, is no exception. Ministers are routinely accused by campaigners and...

UK production to be advanced by new Centre

Yesterday, October 22nd, Minister for the South East Jonathan Shaw MP opened the new Renishaw Centre for Manufacturing Productivity at the University of Greenwich in Chatham, which it is hoped, will not only improve the quality...

Welfare Reform: a Painful Process

Michael White: Labour's great claim is to have taken the essentially passive system it inherited in 1997 and turned it into a proactive one Talk of welfare reform usually triggers strong emotions and yesterday's revamp of...