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Fire-fighters with the Tupelo Fire Department spent time  on Wednesday attending a course on electrical hazards. It was decided that fire-fighters should attend this course as all to often they enter structures on fire, which have electrical hazards due to being interconnected to electrical systems. Bill Wardlaw, batallion chief Tupelo Fire Read more...

British Gas have stated that more than 50,000 Britons have started using its apps in order to control their heating, in the same week as Google have spent £2.5 billion on ‘smart’ home appliance maker Nest. Since the launch of the ‘smart’ thermostat, Hive Active Heating, last September – more than 10,000have it installed in their home Read more...

A suspect, who was believed to have been in a burglary, was captured on film by the BBC’s Springwatch team making his apparent getaway. The Springwatch team had set up an infra red night vision camera, to film a family of urban foxes,. The camera footage has now become a vital piece of evidence for the Metropolitan Police, for the Read more...

Posen has been selected to put the finishing touches on a lighting project for Posen Consolidated Schools, with the school agreeing to purchase around $4,000 worth of LED light bulbs. The installation of these bulbs will finally complete the replacement of the building’s interior lighting, with more energy efficient lights. John Palmer, the Read more...

The residents of Llandough have said the new LED street lights recently installed on their road means it’s ‘like going back to Dickensian times’. A petition has been created, with more than 60 signatures, urging the Vale Council to restore the old lights which enable people to get around safely. Several members of the Neighbourhood Watch Read more...

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...