His analysis for the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission last year found that in cash terms, the cost of chronic diseases caused by Britain's unhealthy food system amounted to £268bn every year - almost as much as the UK's entire healthcare budget. This was broken down into direct ...
SHALE GAS; Fuel Bonanza That Could Redraw the Economic Map of Britain - but Take Care Where You Live
While drivers in Wichita Falls smugly fill up for $2.61, we’re over here wondering if our city slogan should be changed to “El Paso: Where the Sun Shines Bright, and So Does the Gas Station Signboard.” Sure, the national average is $3.13, but why does it feel like we’re just ...
Living plants are often used as fences, such as hedges in Great Britain and continental Europe, and cactus fences in Latin America. Fences of dead wood are also common and can take the form of post-and-rail fences or palisade fences. Before beginning a fence project, it’s important to ...
Clean, fresh, safe tap water – something we take for granted in Britain – is a rare thing in the developing and third worlds, and sometimes surprisingly rare in the developed world. If you’ve ever been to the Canary Islands, for instance, you won’t have found the tap water very ap...
Get used to small spaces. The US is a huge country where people are used to bigger cars, houses and spaces .___, Britain does not have the luxury of space. Houses,apartments and cars are all smaller than you are used to,so trying to become familiar with smaller areas is very ne...
Motorists using the Dartford crossing could see the cost of its daily toll triple if the new Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is built using private finance, campaigners have claimed. Britain's biggest road scheme - a 14.5-mile project stretching from Kent to Essex - was given the gree...
“The right thing for any country to do now is to sit on their hands,” rather than negotiate, said Wolfers, noting that the bottom line is that being publicly humiliated the way Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of Britain was during his recent visit, is not a very appealing prospect for...
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The government argues that would cut Britain’s reliance on foreign fuel and increase energy security. Environmentalists and opposition parties say it will just make it harder for the U.K. to make a much-needed switch to renewable energy and to meet its goal of reducing U.K. greenhouse ...