Full Coverage: United Kingdom

31.05.2004 Two Australian scientists will work with their British counterparts to work on the design of faster laser-driven computers. This collaboration is being facilitated by the British Council Eureka Prize for Inspiring Science.

28.05.2004 School students would be sent on "school safaris" to local environmental hot-spots if advocacy groups Demos and Green Alliance had their way. In a new report, the two non-profits argue that children in urban areas need more access to green spaces if they are not to lose touch with the natural environment.

28.05.2004 A People and Planet student group in Bristol has persuaded their catering firm to provide Fairtrade products. Students at Cotham High School have successfully negotiated with their catering facility - which is managed by the food services giant Sodexho - to provide Fairtrade chocolate bars in the canteen and Fairtrade tea and coffee in the common room. For more on Sodexho, see Corporate Watch UK.

28.05.2004 The body of an Iraqi would-be asylum seeker who died trying to enter Britain in 2001 has been left in a mortuary for almost three years because there are no funds to pay for its return.

28.05.2004 A 15-year-old girl's attempt to wear strict Muslim dress in the classroom could cause unwelcome divisions in a school, the high court heard yesterday. Some might be regarded as "better Muslims" than others.

28.05.2004 By tackling global warming, writes Larry Elliott, Tony Blair can show he is not a US poodle. Contraction and Convergence (C&C), brainchild of the UK-based Global Commons Institute, provides a three-stage blueprint for coping with climate change and the long-term solution that Blair is looking for.

27.05.2004

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A split has developed between the U.S. and UK around whether an Iraqi interim government will have veto power over U.S. military actions in Iraq. While the two countries have demonstrated a show of unity in the joint resolution presented before the UN Council, analysts agree that resolving this split is critical for getting the UN support and quelling the resistance in Iraq.

27.05.2004 Help raise awareness of the UK’s 22 million volunteers during Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June. Take part in events across the country to recognise, reward and recruit volunteers. Find out what is going on near you or organise your own event.

26.05.2004 Unite Against Fascism is calling for local communities across the UK to take part in a national day of action against the British National Party on 6 June in London. The BNP hopes to win seats in local, European and Greater London Authority elections. Find out what you can do to stop them.

26.05.2004 Join thousands of people across the UK taking part in Refugee Week, 14-20 June. Arts, cultural and educational events are being organised to celebrate the contribution that refugees and asylum seekers make to the UK, and to promote understanding about the reasons why people seek sanctuary. Find out what’s going on near you or organise your own event.

26.05.2004 Join hundreds of Africans and their organisations on 3 July at London's City Hall for African Diaspora and Development Day - transforming the local everywhere: Africa here, there, Africa everywhere.

26.05.2004 Join the free anti-racist and multicultural festival for London, 17 July. The Mayor of London, the anti-racist campaigning organisation the National Assembly Against Racism and the trade unions will stage the fourth of the Mayor of London's free respect festivals at Victoria Park.

26.05.2004 Health workers from Africa and Asia talk about how they support local communities to cope with the impact of HIV/AIDS, on 3 June, 3-5.30pm at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, London. Email Clare Haskins to book a place.

24.05.2004 A petition which urges governments to give more priority to fighting the crime of human trafficking and to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers.

24.05.2004 Friends of the Earth is organising a Day of Action on kerbside recycling on 5 June in the run-up to the government’s review of recycling targets for local authorities. The nationwide event also coincides with World Environment Day.

24.05.2004 Low-income neighbourhoods suffer from a lack of clean air and open spaces, and are disproportionately close to industrial sites, while children living in deprived areas are five times more likely than other children to be killed by a car, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research. The think-tank is calling on the government to do more to tackle environmental problems that blight the lives of Britain's poorest communities.

24.05.2004 The Commission for Racial Equality says targets should be set for football clubs to increase the number of ethnic minority staff or face legal action. It says too many clubs are merely paying lip service to cracking down on racism in the sport, with the majority not even adopting equal opportunities policies.

24.05.2004 Scottish political parties who fail to put the environment firmly on the agenda in June's European election could "fail to pick up the votes" from the hundreds of thousands of Scots who consider the environment to be an important political issue. The stark warning to politicians comes in a new opinion poll published on 24 May by the everyone campaign - a coalition of Scotland's leading environment groups.

22.05.2004

21.05.2004 Ministers have failed to grasp the urgency or scale of illegal gangmaster operations, MPs say in a damning report published by the environment, food and rural affairs select committee on 20 May.