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Autumn is a great time for homeowners to get out and about in the garden and tidy up their outdoor space in preparation for the onslaught of the British winter - and there's plenty of tidying up to do. With damp bits of woods and dead leaves falling from the trees, autumn can certainly be beautiful, but it gets messy. And while there aren' Read more...

Major retailers are set to embrace LED lighting, with both Tesco and IKEA announcing plans to convert stores and stocks to LED-only within the coming months. Earlier this month supermarket giant Tesco announced its first LED-only lit store, part of the retail group's drive to cut carbon emissions across its network. It's expected that the Read more...

With the economy being what it is (bad) (not very good), businesses are cutting costs wherever they can, and they are doing that in a number of ways: fitting devices to fleet vehicles to monitor fuel use, downgrading or moving out of their commercial property into more affordable, manageable premises, and even restructuring their staff. One Read more...

Ever since we all started sitting up and taking notice of the impact of short-life, high energy spending incandescent lightbulbs and switching them out for longer-lasting greener alternatives, there has been a little push and pull as to which technology is better: LED lighting or compact fluorescent lamps (CFL). While CFLs offer typically a lower Read more...

As industry expert Peter O'Connell of the Federation of Master Builders noted this week, health and safety guidelines remain the "number one priority" for those in the construction industry, whether they are carrying out building work or overseeing a project. However, while fittings such as switches and sockets are subject to strict Read more...

A tropical fish display at an aquatic centre in Scunthorpe has been unveiled, newly lit using LED light bulbs. The Deep's Lagoon of Light display houses 66 species of fish and aquatic creatures, with a tropical coral reef and over 1,100 individual fish housed in the 200,000-litre tank. And as This is Scunthorpe reports, the lighting Read more...

Milk is the greatest, milk is the best. If you leave milk untouched for long enough, it turns into cheese. If you put it in a pail and shake it, it turns into butter. There really isn't any need for any other food. But what does LED lighting have to do with milk? Well, kind of a lot, if the new range launched by Intershape Ltd is anything to Read more...

A three-year EU directive focussed on phasing out the sale and supply of traditional incandescent lightbulbs has finally seen sales of the non-sustainable lighting source outlawed across Europe.  The multi-stage ban - which began in September 2009 and was completed on September 1st - has now ruled that low-wattage incandescents are no longer Read more...

LED lighting has been on every 'big this year' forecast ever since the technology really broke through, becoming affordable for businesses and homes alike, in 2009. But as Arlen Schweiger reports from the CEDIA Expo in Indianapolis, the rate of innovation in the field of LED lighting could see an avalanche of new products hit the market Read more...

Street lighting in Sheffield is set to undergo a transformation after a five-year plan to improve the streets, pavements and roads in the city was announced by council authorities. Sheffield Council will work with contractor Amey on the £2 billion Streets Ahead scheme, which aims to overhaul the inner-city streets and roads by 2017. Areas Read more...