Gordon Brown has upped his eco credentials by pushing the expansion of wind power turbines throughout the nation. Over the coming decade, the £100bn plans will hopefully see that the UK becomes in leader of renewable energy, with a targeted 15% of its power coming from renewable sources by 2020.… read more…

A UN official has claimed that the Taleban made $100m (£50m) from the sale of opium in 2007. BBC. Energy bosses are preparing to justify their upcoming price increases to MPs. BBC. The ambulance service has admitted to losing a computer disk containing the personal information of a million 999… read more…

The economy has been big news of late - or rather the shivering, frail, wheezing husk of a thing that was once labelled an economy. Rising fuel prices, soaring energy bills, increased general cost of living ... there are more ominous stormclouds than Alabama tornado season, and right now… read more…

The Conservative Party has increased its lead over Labour, a new poll reveals. ePolitix. A survey has revealed that Scots are twice as likely to commit either homicide or suicide than people from anywhere else in the UK. The Guardian. Truck drivers will today meet with Shell after 647 petrol… read more…

Tree-huggers and namby-pamby types are getting even more excitable than usual today after a government report suggested that the future of UK power is to be based on environmentally friendly microgeneration systems. Released earlier this afternoon, the Department for Business, Energy and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) report details that solar panels,… read more…

It has been said that Labour 'can still win the next election'. The Guardian. The NHS has claimed that the public are in favour of the government's proposed 'polyclinic' scheme. The Guardian. New rules regarding the number of skilled migrants allowed to work in the UK are to be announced… read more…

You'd think - what with all the doom-laden reports concerning the future of the environment, including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and its upcoming sequel We Are All Definitely, Definitely Going To Die - that being eco-friendly would be the number one priority for the government. According to those… read more…

It's perhaps a little surprising that the power companies are doing their very best impression of Messrs Scrooge at the moment, given that their regulator, Ofgem, has alerted the government to the possibility of a nine billion quid windfall tax. It's complicated, but bear with us. The European carbon trading… read more…