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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...

Lights are an important part to the Christmas Festival as well as the gifts, food, wine and more. A family from the capital of Australia, Canberra, has shattered a Guinness World Record for the 2nd time by lighting more than half a million lights for charity. Dave Richard and his family have reclaimed back the world record by displaying a total Read more...

Warwickshire Council was blamed to contributing to the death of a university student whilst trying to cut costs by switching off streetlights. Archie Wellbelove was hit by a taxi and killed on 7th December, 2012 when coming home from a night out. Mr. Wellbelove, who was in his first year at Warwick University, studying English and French was Read more...

The creation of a new CCTV camera (Kintense), with a built in monitoring system designed to detect aggressive behaviour was presented at the SenSys conference in Rome, Italy, earlier this month. The skeletal recognition tech behind Kinect is useful for more than just gaming used with Microsoft's gaming sensor. Kintense, a system designed Read more...

An electrician has sustained burns to his face, wrists and hands after an ‘arc flashover’. A Dundee man Gordon Roberts, aged 38 at the time of the incident spent 9 days in hospital for treatment of his injuries on December 2nd 2010. McGill Electrical Ltd was fined a sum of £2,000 after the company admitted breaching Health and Safety Read more...

A local Long Jetty man, Peter Knight, claims he will not be bullied into having his electricity credit meter changed. He has gone to the extent of padlocking his meter in an attempt to resist a new electricity meter installation by the Ausgrid technicians.  Fashion importer and wholesaler, Mr Knight said, “Bring it on, I will be ready. This Read more...