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It is believed that Town Hall bosses are considering swapping 56,000 lamps in Manchester with energy efficient LED Lanterns. The LED upgrade will cost roughly £32 million, and be rolled out over the period of 3 years and will cut the city’s energy bill drastically as well as mimic daylight at night. The council officers have already begun to Read more...

In Ghana, over the past several years, numerous businesses such as warehouses, corporate establishments and retail outlets have suffered from outbreaks of fire. The majority of the fires occurred in Accra, Takoradi and Kumasi in commercial centres which have led to the loss of goods totalling millions of Ghana cedis, as well as damage to Read more...

On Monday night councillors met with Roads Service bosses at Mossley Mill, the main topics of discussion being about grit boxes and traffic calming. Presenting the Eastern Division Autumn Roads Report; Divisional Roads Manager, Kevin Monaghan gave members a brief update on the ongoing A2 and A8 dual carriageway projects, and highlighted a Read more...

The South African electricity distributers, City Power are ready to implement an AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure), or smart meters also known as electricity meter, throughout Johannesburg. The smart meters are connected to computers which are then able to provide an accurate and up to date report on the exact amount of electricity that has Read more...

A survey has warned thousands of households in the North-East to consider turning off their heating this winter in order to help them cope with the bill increases. This Sunday, 900.000 Npower customers across the North East will see their average electricity bill rise by 9.3%, with gas prices jumping to 11.1%. As a result, any customer who uses Read more...

There are 35 jobs to be terminated by the end of year in an electrical firm in Powys. Staff at Elkay Electrical, which is part of Thomas & Betts, has been handing out redundancy notices after it announced it would be closing it Newtown factory. It has been noted that the Welsh government said the firm turned down an offer to discuss methods Read more...

Electrical engineer Leroy Welborn and wife Sharron, now aged 78 and 76, bought Best Electric from Steve Osborne in 1977.  At the time of buying the company, Sharron ran the company and Leroy continued doing electrical contracting. When Leroy was not on calls, he would help run the store, make sales and carry out deliveries, so he could get to Read more...

In the state of Ontario, Canada, it will soon be mandatory for all homes to be fitted with a Carbon Monoxide alarm. On Wednesday, the provisional legislature voted in support of a private member’s bill to require homeowners to install CO2 alarms. The alarms are to be fitted to warn homeowners of the presence of carbon monoxide and will be Read more...

Although turning up the central heating could cost you a few pounds it could also help you keep off the kilos. A recent study released on Tuesday has revealed that people are less likely to be fat if they live in a warm home and tend to have alower BMI (Body Mass Index) levels than those who shiver through Winter. In Scotland at the Read more...

Following complaints from passengers, Heathrow Airport will hire a team of high wire walkers to change the 120 feet high light bulbs which sit along the ceiling. According to Vicki O’Brien, head of the Customer Service at British Airways, the huge bulb replacement task will cost several million and take approximately 4 months to complete. Read more...