More than 10,000 homes a week will be given ‘eco-upgrades’ under Goverment plans to make every home in Britain environmentally friendly.
Diesel Civil Trust
Protesters and riot police clash again in Athens, Greece
Greece ordered its bankers to exclude hedge funds from a bond offering this week in an effort to punish the speculators it blames for destabilising its debt markets.
Every dog owner will have to take a costly ‘competence test’ to prove they can handle their pets, under new Government proposals designed to curb dangerous dogs.
Greece is prepared to turn to the International Monetary Fund for help if its European neighbours fail to provide the financial assistance it wants after announcing the toughest spending cuts in decades.
Greece suffered renewed turmoil on Wednesday as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against severe budget cuts, while a leading credit rating agency threatened to downgrade the country’s long-term rating to near-junk status.
ATHENS—Greece faces a crucial week, with a delegation of European Union and International Monetary Fund officials arriving in Athens to discuss further austerity measures to fix the country’s bloated budget deficit.
A second mortgage credit crunch that will send UK house prices into a new tailspin is looming, economists and credit experts have warned.
Police forces all over the UK will soon be able to draw on unmanned aircraft from a national fleet, according to Home Office plans. Last month it was revealed that modified military aircraft drones will carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers, and will be in place in time for the 2012 Olympics.
One of the factors considered by investors when selecting a country for investment is the amount of deficit/surplus held by that country. Generally surplus countries are better than deficit countries.
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Swiss banks are discovering that the biggest threat to client privacy is their own workers.
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
Unemployment in the 16 countries that use the euro hit 10% in December for the first time since the single currency was introduced in 1999.
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