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Plastic 5 note 'first in Britain'

2014-05-22 11:55:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The first plastic banknotes in Britain will be in use next year when two million 5 notes are issued by Clydesdale Bank branches.

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Warm weather boosts hopes for rarest bumblebee's revival in Britain

2014-05-19 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Warm spring conditions should help Britain's rarest bumblebee as wildlife experts reintroduce a new batch of queens to help boost the species. The short-haired bumblebee vanished from the UK in 1988, having suffered declines over the previous 60 years as its habitat was lost, and was officially declared extinct in 2000. A scheme to reintroduce the species has seen experts collecting short-haired bumblebee queens from Sweden, where they are found in good numbers, and releasing them at the RSPB's...

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Britain to end solar power subsidy scheme early

2014-05-13 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Britain will end its subsides for new solar power plants two years earlier than expected to prevent costs from the scheme soaring, the government said on Tuesday. Energy companies who build solar farms currently qualify for subsidies through the government's so-called 'Renewable Obligation' (RO) scheme, and had expected to keep receiving these until 2017. Under the plans announced by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) the scheme will be closed to new solar projects over 5 megawatts...

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Pfizer underscores its commitments to Britain in memo to parliamentary committees

2014-05-12 17:40:35| Biotech - Topix.net

Pfizer Inc. has sought to allay concerns over its proposed $106 billion takeover offer of Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals firm AstraZeneca, insisting that its promises will be legally binding.

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