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Exposure to LED Warm White light allows us to feel good, makes us more alert, boosts our resistance to disease and now can help us to sleep better at night – Light plays a crucial role in helping our body to function properly as well as help produce the correct amount of essential hormone melatonin. By making a few simple changes to our Read more...

Patients at one of Britain’s 1st Private Finance Initiative hospital have been subjected to ‘likely catastrophic risk’, due to dangerous infections from operating theatres being spread into the rest of the building because the PFI contractor installed a faulty ventilation system. In internal papers which were passed to Jesse Norman, Read more...

90% of disabled people along with 75% of carers are affected by the bedroom tax meaning that in order to pay their rent they have to cut back on food and heating. The DBC (Disability Benefits Consortium), a national coalition of over 50 charities has revealing findings in a letter to Ian Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary which called on Read more...

As temperatures plummet and fuel prices rise, finding easier ways to save energy is top of everyone’s list. Yet research show that nearly 33% of us are missing out on one of the simplest money and energy saving opportunities – simply turning our heating thermostat down. Between 18- 21°C is enough to keep our homes at a comfortable Read more...

The Manager of the Cardigan Feed Service said, “It was down to the expertise of volunteer fire-fighters, that the largest feed service operation is still standing today in eastern P.E.I (Prince Edward Island).” During an interview last Thurday, Mary VandenBroek mentioned, “We were two minutes away from losing it, and today we would have Read more...

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...