|
|
|
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.
Falcon Wharf, Battersea, London SW11 It was, most unusually, the press release that I noticed. Writing about architecture for an international paper means a daily inundation of hysterical claims from demented flaks, earning...
Oil prices are rising; natural gas is becoming harder and more expensive to transport and our already hefty energy bills are only going to get more expensive. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) says one in four...
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, the chairman of HBOS, strode excitedly on to the stage at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, his arms whirling energetically. It was Thursday 26 June 2008 and hundreds of shareholders...
With a tough, edgier Mickey Mouse starring in his own video game, advances in technology and increasing adult appeal, audiences for animated movies have never had it better, says William Langley. In the beginning, Mickey was...
Open all night long. Dimly lit, with rows of sleek, modern terminals, the internet café in Fiji's capital, Suva, was packed at all hours with teenage boys playing boisterous rounds of videogames. But one day soon after I...
Ronnie, my four-year-old son, is confused. "Why is there a tree growing in our house?" he asks, pointing to the thick trunk reaching up and out of the bathroom ceiling through a carefully crafted hole. It's a good point, but...
The Chamraj estate in Tamil Nadu is thriving thanks to the Fairtrade Foundation - but the same cannot be said for the south Indian tea industry The price of basic farm commodities has been hammered over the past 40 years,...
It is ironic that when Will Hutton (Comment) points out that the private sector cannot do everything, it is now regarded as controversial, almost counterintuitive. The previous, postwar consensus centred on a mixed economy when...
Residents and developers are preparing for a new battle as a notorious scheme at Carylon Bay is revived One of Britain's longest-running planning rows has been reignited by a proposal to build some 500 flats on three of the...
