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Report: Britain Snooped on Yahoo Users' Sexy Times
2014-02-28 17:41:18| TechNewsWorld
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, reportedly intercepted and collected millions of images of people via Yahoo webcam chats, some of which were sexually explicit. As part of the surveillance program, dubbed "Optic Nerve," GCHQ saved images from webcams on agency databases regardless of whether or not the individuals were an intelligence target.
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Britain to enforce greater scrutiny of utilities to open up energy market
2014-02-26 15:42:10| Energy - Topix.net
Britain's main energy suppliers will have to disclose long-term power prices twice daily from next month under rules to be enforced by regulator Ofgem aimed at encouraging new entrants into a fairer energy market.
EC launches legal action against Britain over deadly air pollution
2014-02-20 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The European Commission has launched legal proceedings against the UK over excessive air pollution. Last May the Supreme Court ruled that the Government was failing in its legal duty to protect people from the harmful effects of nitrogen dioxide and other air-borne contaminants. At the time judges said Britain was facing 'immediate enforcement action' and today the EC announced it would begin legal proceedings. The UK government must now either take action to reduce levels of carcinogenic...
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More sinkholes will open up across Britain as the effects of flooding continue
2014-02-19 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A spate of sinkholes have opened up across the country as floodwater dissolves the underlying rock, while a second wave is likely to appear in the coming weeks as the rain stops and the ground begins to dry, the British Geological Survey warned yesterday. The number of sinkholes reported has soared to six so far this month many times more than the one to two that is typical across the whole of a normal year, experts said. These have generally occurred as soluble rocks such as chalk, limestone...
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While Britain Floods, Politicians Debate Climate Change
2014-02-17 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Britons are normally never more comfortable than when talking about the weather, but recent extreme weather events have began to test that theory. Since December, the U.K. has faced a relentless assault from some of the worst winter weather on record. It began with the worst storm and tidal surges in 60 years hitting the North Sea coastline, floods that ruined Christmas for thousands across Surrey and Dorset and in January, the most exceptional period of rainfall since 1766. The deluge has transformed...
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