UK news archive

28.10.2005 A Boeing 747 flight - donated to Save the Children by Virgin Atlantic - will leave for Pakistan on Monday with tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheeting to provide vital shelter for people left homeless by the 8 October earthquake.

28.10.2005 People and the environment are paying the price of Shell's record - and "unacceptable" - profit increase, said a leading environmental group.

24.10.2005 The UK Government has backed down in the face of demands that it stop using aid money to fund privatisation public relations in the world's second poorest country.

20.10.2005 Christian Aid has won the prestigious PRWeek Award 2005 (not-for-profit category) for its "Tree of Life" media campaign, based on a sculpture created from decommissioned weapons and currently on display in the British Museum.

19.10.2005 Shortly after 7.30 on Wednesday morning, Greenpeace volunteers blockaded the entrance to the Department for the Environment,Food and Rural Affairs in London in protest at the tonnes of illegal timber continuing to flood into the UK from the world's last rainforests.

19.10.2005 Sharon Osbourne has released star-studded version of 'Tears in Heaven' to raise funds for Save the Children’s work, notably survivors of the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

14.10.2005 A coalition of leading UK organisations has welcomed an initiative by the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives to establish a cross-party consensus for action on climate change.

14.10.2005 Britain should stop dithering and come out in support of proposed discussions on Burma at the UN Security Council, a leading campaign group said yesterday.

13.10.2005 The sweeping and vague provisions of the Terrorism Bill are dangerous and ill-conceived, a leading rights group said as it published a detailed briefing on proposed legislation.

12.10.2005 The National Black Police Association is protesting against the Home Secretary’s decision to disband the committee of independent advisors.

10.10.2005 A series of pilot schemes designed to offer incentives for households across England to recycle more waste have been announced this week, in a bid to change attitudes on the issue.

07.10.2005 A "closer and more joined-up approach" to the fight against wildlife crime in England and Wales is promised by English Nature, the Countryside Council
for Wales and the Association of Chief Police Officers.

06.10.2005 The CBI must back new legislation to make the Government legally responsible for tackling climate change, says a leading environmental group while welcoming an acknowledgement from business leaders of their "significant" role in tackling climate change.

06.10.2005 New powers allowing police to arrest criminals selling parts from endangered species were used by the Metropolitan police for the first time this week.

06.10.2005 Should councils print all important documents in several languages, or is this encouraging separatism? Is it really offensive to call someone "coloured"? Should we put off that important meeting because it’s Yom Kippur, even though only one of the people attending is Jewish? The head of the Commission for Racial Equality makes another controversial speech.

05.10.2005 There is serious concern over the treatment of the 19 women rescued from a Birmingham brothel last week, who police suspected were trafficked.

05.10.2005 UK electricity bills, from this week, will include information on how much energy is sourced from renewable fuel, giving customers an insight into the environmental-friendliness of the supplier.

04.10.2005 Scotland’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 10%, according to the latest figures from the Scottish Executive.

03.10.2005 The UK needs to protect victims of the sex industry as well as catching the traffickers, warns Amnesty International.

03.10.2005 Environmental group Friends of the Earth is calling for all UK power companies to tell their customers how polluting their electricity is following a report exposing the UK’s worst polluters.