Falmouth Coastguard raised the alarm with international rescue services after being alerted to a sinking racing yacht in the Java Sea, 200 miles North East of Jakarta, with 16 people on board including five Britons...
Milford Haven Coastguard have been able to get urgently needed help this afternoon to an elderly couple in their 70’s cut off by the snow in Mynydd, Castle Blythe near Letterston.
A leading global defence company has been fined £80,000 after a worker was killed in an explosion at its Lancashire site.
Work to stabilise an embankment near the A27 Cophall Roundabout at Polegate in East Sussex starts on Monday 18 January for six weeks.
Improvements to a footbridge over the A27 in West Sussex are to be made throughout January and February.
DWP006/10 Asda, British Airways, Macmillan Cancer Support and Microsoft are just some of the organisations that have thrown their weight behind the Backing Young Britain campaign to create new opportunities ...
This consultation started on 2nd November 2009 and ends on 25th January 2010.
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On 21 January 2009, the European Commission published a new Regulation concerning the composition and labelling...
A Tyneside firm has designs on taking on the world with its range of innovative and sustainable ”Eco” products with the help of UK Trade & Investment.
Work to strengthen the hard shoulder on the M5 in the West Midlands will begin next week (18 January, subject to weather conditions) and is expected to last until the end of March.
In theory, this is a transformative phase we are now entering for Europe. We have a new role for a President and a new High Representative. We have a big chance to redefine European influence globally in the ...
Having dropped out of school early with virtually no qualifications, young Essex mum Daisy Simmons is now hoping to become a police officer with help from a Learning and Skills Council (LSC) scheme, Care to Learn...
A Birmingham company is on target to export £500,000 worth of workwear over the next 12 months - with help from UK Trade & Investment.
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Four senior members of the Afghan National Police in Helmand have spent the past few days in the UK, seeing the training that British forces...
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A Tyneside firm has designs on taking on the world with its range of innovative and sustainable ”Eco” products with the help of UK Trade & Investment.
Strengthened delivery arrangements and more local planning responsibility will drive regeneration in London and Thurrock Thames Gateways and West Northamptonshire following a review of Urban Development Corporations...
Mike O’Brien (Minister of State, Department of Health):
The recession will not deflect the Government’s efforts to cut carbon emissions and move to a low carbon economy, Energy and Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband said today.
A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
Bransholme in Hull is to gets its own dedicated radio station thanks to an ambitious bid by a team of students from Winifred Holtby School Technology College. The young people this week learned they were all...
Home Office Minister Alan Campbell today witnessed how tough exercise sessions are being used to help combat youth crime and anti-social behaviour on the streets of Bradford.
Humanitarian relief work in Haiti will be supported by a $10 million donation from the Department for International Development.
Today, Minister for Higher Education, David Lammy, will visit Childwall Sports College in Liverpool to see at first hand the work being done to encourage pupils to continue their studies at higher education institutions...
Following seven days of tragedy in the North East, Coastguards are urging anglers to stay safe on the coast. On average, 7 anglers lose their lives on the UK coast every year but in the past week her majesty’...
Commenting on the latest HESA data on student enrolments and entrants for 2008/09, Minister of State for Higher Education David Lammy said.
Following seven days of tragedy in the North East, Coastguards are urging anglers to stay safe on the coast. On average, 7 anglers lose their lives on the UK coast every year but in the past week her majesty’...
Thirty-eight agencies in the teaching and childcare sectors have been issued with warnings by the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS) for failing to comply with the law.
Communities Secretary John Denham today re-affirmed the Governments steadfast commitment to tackling race inequality and set out plans to build on the significant achievements by pledging to tackle inequality...
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson today announced the appointment of Professor William Pope as Chair of the East of England Development Agency.
Contracts worth £333M have been awarded by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance (ACA) to companies across the country to help to build the Royal Navy's new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.
A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
Falmouth Coastguard raised the alarm with international rescue services after being alerted to a sinking racing yacht in the Java Sea, 200 miles North East of Jakarta, with 16 people on board including five Britons...
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Business minister Lord Young of Norwood Green has today announced that 19 new vessels will be included in the Government’s Icelandic water trawlermen compensation scheme.
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Instead of walking around with carts trying to pick up rubbish they cant see...
This has been policy in the isle of man prison where prison popualtion has...
How can it be that people who have legal title to a property can be forced...
Since the departure of the RNR in Belfast to 'HMS Hibernia', Belfast risks...
'...Not remove Brittannia from British Coins' -- Barbara Ayres
to be a crucial human rights issue that over generations, stigmatises...
The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP (Home Secretary) is not fit for office, and...
Orkney Islands Council have stopped paying a fostering allowance for child "...
It's 2010 and I'd like to think that we could all live as one. However it...
The main issue that we should be concerned about with the Burkha is the...
Petrol Prices 0.82p in 2003 - 1.06 in 2009 this is a rise of 0.24p Liquid...
I think that ema should really be based on the amount of children in the...
As someone who receives Disability Living Allowance because I am unable to...
Non-nationals should be stopped from having NI numbers with the benefits...
If cctv is installed and monitored in slaughter houses and abattoirs this...
We as a society have spent too long protecting the criminals and not the...
Unprecedented weather? (without previous instance; never before known or...
The domestic heating oil price has increased by 35% in the last month alone...
Consumer minister Kevin Brennan has today announced that he has accepted the Competition Commission’s recommendation for a body to enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP).
Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson will be among the British delegation meeting the Indian Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, this week for discussions about the broad range of UK-India cooperation...
Schools in London have been praised after achieving their best ever GCSE results, making the region the best-performing in the country.
The CRC work programme needs to include support for community buildings to become more energy efficient, because this is a fundamental part of community CO2 reduction efforts. ACRE's VH staff can...
I am about to claim pension credit however my wife is a lot younger so do I say she is looking for work when in fact she looks after me? I'm not claiming disability as my disorder is functional and although...
Farmers across the South West are being encouraged to make their New Year’s resolution a promise to come home safe from the field.
Clothing importer, Citytex UK Ltd, has today been fined £10,000 after part of its building collapsed in February 2007, with more than 20 people inside.
The Highways Agency is to further reduce its salt usage as a measure to conserve salt stocks and help manage supplies in order to help keep the country running during the continuing winter weather period. This...
An angling boat was rescued after going aground on the Buxey Sand in Essex when the crew became disorientated, without navigation equipment or charts, with a non functioning VHF radio set and no flares in adverse...
Andy Burnham will today call for tanning salons to be banned from allowing under 18s to use sunbeds.
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
Home Secretary Alan Johnson today announced the new interim chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
Consumer minister Kevin Brennan has today announced that he has accepted the Competition Commission’s recommendation for a body to enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP).
People aren’t wearing lifejackets because they underestimate the risk of falling into the water and don’t appreciate the danger of cold water shock, according to new research commissioned by the Maritime and ...
This is a joint Government Equalities Office and Ministry of Justice News Release Women in the criminal justice system - working across Government
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At 8:15am today, Stornoway Coastguard received a call from the Irish registered fishing vessel 'Niamh Edghan', 20 miles West of South Uist, who had a 45 year old crewman on board who had sustained a serious head...
Ian Lucas, Minister for Business and Regulatory Reform today visited the Tullett Prebon London International Boat Show, where he was delighted to note the signs of recovery that the UK leisure and small commercial...
The Highways Agency has today released photographs showing conditions on the A66 at Stainmore on the border between Cumbria and County Durham.
The main part of a bridge allowing pedestrians, cyclist and horse riders to safely cross the A2 near Canterbury is to be installed later this month.
Schools in London have been praised after achieving their best ever GCSE results, making the region the best-performing in the country.
The Highways Agency is planning to resurface part of the A46 (near Bidford-on-Avon) to improve safety for motorists.
Coastguard Rescue Teams have been involved across East Sussex in helping with transfers of essential staff in and out of the Eastbourne and Hastings Conquest Hospitals.
SE006-10 A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
SE008-10 A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the cocaine supply conviction of Besnik Qema to the Crown Court.
North East firms are being offered the chance to help shape the future of the UK’s Life Sciences industry as a special roadshow begins a tour of the UK.
The new Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA) today announced the appointment of Professor Dame Janet Finch, DBE as their third non-executive director.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, has re-appointed Ian Russell as Non Executive Chair of Remploy. Remploy is one of the UK’s leading providers of specialist employment services for disabled...
Millions of workers today moved a step closer to getting a workplace pension for the first time as the final rules for the Government’s pensions reform were put before Parliament today.
The Government today called on communities to step forward to lead the fight against crime and anti-social behaviour.
Lancashire County Council, on behalf of the North West Rural Strategic Group and with the support of Government Office for the North West and Defra, has produced a brochure to raise both awareness and...
In the current economic environment, how can housing associations achieve excellence and deliver attractive, green affordable rural homes and communities?
This conference will outline the major...
Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson will be among the British delegation meeting the Indian Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, this week for discussions about the broad range of UK-India cooperation...
The main part of a bridge allowing pedestrians, cyclist and horse riders to safely cross the A2 near Canterbury is to be installed later this month.
Coastguard Rescue Teams have been involved across East Sussex in helping with transfers of essential staff in and out of the Eastbourne and Hastings Conquest Hospitals.
SE006-10 A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work
SE008-10 A traffic management summary for both new and ongoing work