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Edinburgh Council will be spending £2.15 million, in order to upgrade 6,000 street lights across the city; this will primarily be from using PPL and LED, which will help improve long life and lower costs. The upgrade is a result of the Council’s White Pilot Project being successful; this is where 271 street lights were upgraded in 2 areas of Read more...

A forklift truck driver has been jailed for 2 years after he was caught having stole £40,000 worth of power tool from the warehouse which he worked in. On Tuesday, at Oxford Crown Court, Anthony Hart, of Lodden Avenue, Berinsfield, was sentenced after pleading guilty to three accounts of theft by an employee. Yunus Cevahir, his 30-year-old Read more...

A pioneering project is breathing new life into homes which are ‘empty’ and ‘run down’, which will help the victims of the so called ‘bedroom tax’. The team which is behind setting this up has warned that there has been a number of families stung by the reform and have to choose between heating their homes or feeding their families. Read more...

For the last 2 months, a family in Farnborough have been without hot water and heating due to not being able to get a new boiler delivered. Natasha Silvers, who is 26 years old from Cody Road, has had to take her 2 children Daniel and kristian, aged 9 and 11 months, to family members’ homes in order to bathe them since the beginning of Read more...

Millions of British children are at risk of health problems due to their parents not being able to afford heating to heat their homes properly. An investigation has shown the number of families which have turned to payday loans to pay energy bills has soared drastically leaving many in horrendous debt. Around 3 million householders revealed that Read more...

Environmentally friendly lighting is to be installed in the borough of North Tyneside. The system was approved on Monday at a meeting for the members of North Tyneside Council’s cabinet. The meeting was called to discuss ways in which the council could reduce its carbon footprint as well as save £200,000 a year in electricity costs. A total of Read more...

Two days ago, there wereseveral buildings left without power in Dundee due to a fire in an electrical box. After a blackout caused by the fault, emergency services and engineers raced to the Scott Fyffe roundabout. Shops and other local businesses, including the Boars Rock pub and the local branch of TSB, were left without any source of power Read more...

A scheme which was set up to help target the problems from physical assaults and fare disputes is expected to be approved next month, this will mean passengers in Glasgow city taxis will be captured on CCTV. A note was sent to councilors by the authority’s head of licensing acknowledging that CCTV in taxis is potentially more invasive than some Read more...

At STC (Stockbridge Technology Centre) in Cawood, an undergoing project is being investigated for the potential of growing strawberries via the use of LED Lighting. Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s approached the centre hoping to expand to its customers the availability of British strawberries throughout the whole year, as opposed to its current Read more...

A recent study from the Complutense University of Madrid claims that 99% of cells which protect the retina can actually be damaged by LEDs. The Spanish researchers say LEDs produce high levels of ‘Blue band’ radiation of the light spectrum, which over long periods of time can cause damage. With their use being used more and more, Dr Celia Read more...