News story: First tree planted in River Aire natural flood management pilot
The first of 450 trees in a £500,000 natural flood management pilot scheme on the River Aire have been planted to reduce flood risk. read more
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Commission welcomes ambitious agreement on first ever EU legislation to monitor and report CO2 emissions from heavy-duty vehicles
Representatives from the European Parliament and the Council reached yesterday evening a provisional agreement on the Regulation for monitoring and reporting CO2 emissions and fuel consumption data from new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs), i.e. lorries, buses and coaches. This is the … read more
CO2 emissions of lorries, buses and coaches: provisional agreement with Parliament on new rules for monitoring and reporting
Press contacts Katharina Pausch-Homblé Press officer +32 2 281 62 63 +32 470 88 42 96 On 26 March, the Bulgarian presidency reached an provisional agreement with the European Parliament on a regulation on monitoring and reporting of CO2 emissions as … read more
Blether Tay-Gither – Storytelling in Dundee
From Blether Tay-Gither :Our March Blether will be tonight – Tuesday 27th March – at 7pm at our new venue – The Butterfly Café, 28 Commercial Street.The theme this month is The Letter “F” – bring a story about anything beginning with “F” maybe fa… read more
No to an NHS tax
I do not think there is a simple extra tax we can invent that will meet the future financial needs of the NHS. The UK government has usually avoided hypothecation of revenues for the perfectly good reason that there is no likelihood that a particular … read more