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		<title>New government scheme offers incentives for updating to renewable heating</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the UK government announced a new programme of financial incentives that will reward businesses and individuals for upgrading their heating systems to use renewable resources. The £860 million Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme will support emerging heating technologies like biomass boilers (which burn wood pellets), solar thermal, ground and water source heat-pumps, on-site biogas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An end to fish discarding?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve written a couple of times about the appalling practice in the North Seas fishery called “discarding.”  Due to discarding, at least one-third – and some say up to one half – of the fish caught in the North Sea are thrown dead or dying back into the sea. The reason fish are being discarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage pregnancy rates down- but for how long?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office for National Statistics has this week released statistics estimating that the number of under-18 pregnancies for 2009 was at its lowest since the early 1980s- a fall of 5.9%. Over half of these conceptions led to legal abortion, and the under-16 birth rate also fell. The statistics- for England and Wales- do however [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011: The Year of the Electric Car?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re in the market for a new car, you might want to consider waiting until the new year to buy one – and once 2011 has been rung in, you might also want to consider whether an electric car would suit your needs. Why? One reason is the lower fuel costs offered by electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URGENT: Contact Your MP to Help Missing People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people don&#8217;t even want to think about the nightmare of a family member or child going missing &#8212; but for thousands of families in the United Kingdom, that nightmare has become a reality.  And now, government funding cuts are threatening the only free, national, 24-hour helpline for missing people and their families in the UK.  People&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Display of Cigarettes Ban- The Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In January this year MSPs passed new laws which will end the open display of tobacco in shops across Scotland. Unsurprisingly, it’s news that has angered the tobacco industry, with one company branding the moves as “drastic”. The new Tobacco and Primary Medical Services Bill will also ban cigarette vending machines, in addition to introducing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election 2010- a battle of the wives?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics used to be an all-male arena. Traditionally, men ruled parliament, empire and anything in between. Those working in the political spectrum were suited, booted, wives muted. Roll on Margaret Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice and the 2010 British election and suddenly it’s not party leaders Gordon Brown and David Cameron gracing the front pages of both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People’s Postcode Lottery Join 2020 Delivery Group on Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People’s Postcode Lottery Chief Executive Jo Bucci has joined a new 2020 Delivery Group, aiming to ensure that all sectors of Scotland&#8217;s economy and civic society contribute fully to achieving the Climate Change Delivery Plan. The Climate Change Delivery Plan includes the target of a 42 per cent reduction in emissions over the next decade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment- Are Apprenticeships the Solution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid news that the recession has hit unemployment of those between the ages of 16-24 hardest, Gordon Brown pressed upon the public his earnest plans to create 85,000 jobs and training opportunities for young people. Reported in The Guardian earlier this month, any unemployed young person between the ages of 18-24 will have the opportunity [...]]]></description>
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