Given the public's emphatic rejection of the plans to sell off our forests, you might have thought the government would tread more carefully with its reforms to the planning system.
But no. The proposed new planning framework now out to consultation is, if anything, a worse threat to our countryside, because "economic development" (read "developers' profits") will override environmental protection...
Planning reforms are bigger threat to our countryside than forest sell-off Caroline Lucas Environment guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
BBC News - European Commission financial tax opposed by UK
Our country is being shortsighted here, backing banks and preventing the EU from offering a lead to the world: The UK has said it will "resist" a financial transaction tax on EU members proposed by the European Commission.
The tax would raise about 57bn euros ($78bn; £50bn) a year and would come into effect at the start of 2014.
Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said banks must "make a contribution" as Europe faced its "greatest challenge".
The UK said it had no objection to a financial tax in principle, but it would have to be introduced globally.
A transaction tax would need the approval of the UK in order to be implemented across the EU...
BBC News - European Commission financial tax opposed by UK
The tax would raise about 57bn euros ($78bn; £50bn) a year and would come into effect at the start of 2014.
Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said banks must "make a contribution" as Europe faced its "greatest challenge".
The UK said it had no objection to a financial tax in principle, but it would have to be introduced globally.
A transaction tax would need the approval of the UK in order to be implemented across the EU...
BBC News - European Commission financial tax opposed by UK
Saudi woman to be lashed for driving car - Telegraph
This apalling and outrageous news from the UKs 'ally': A Saudi woman has been sentenced to to 10 lashes for challenging a ban on women driving.
Amnesty International reported the sentence just two days after Saudi King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and run in municipal elections...
Saudi woman to be lashed for driving car - Telegraph
Amnesty International reported the sentence just two days after Saudi King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and run in municipal elections...
Saudi woman to be lashed for driving car - Telegraph
China population to become world's biggest polluters - Telegraph
China's carbon emissions for each member of its population could overtake that of Britain as early as the end of next year, it has been revealed.
The prediction comes in a report which shows that the country's carbon footprint is expanding far faster than predicted.
A combination of an infrastructure building spree and the ramping up of carbon-intensive industries after the 2008 financial crisis means China is now being catapulted into the ranks of developed world countries when it comes to per person CO2 emissions.
China already emits more carbon per person than France and Spain and on current trends will surpass the United States in per person emissions as early as 2017, according to the report conducted by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment agency and sponsored by the European Commission...
China population to become world's biggest polluters - Telegraph
The prediction comes in a report which shows that the country's carbon footprint is expanding far faster than predicted.
A combination of an infrastructure building spree and the ramping up of carbon-intensive industries after the 2008 financial crisis means China is now being catapulted into the ranks of developed world countries when it comes to per person CO2 emissions.
China already emits more carbon per person than France and Spain and on current trends will surpass the United States in per person emissions as early as 2017, according to the report conducted by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment agency and sponsored by the European Commission...
China population to become world's biggest polluters - Telegraph
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