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FSA: The Food Standards Agency in Scotland is inviting tenders to carry out a desk-based research study to provide evidence to support the development of a monitoring programme for emerging marine biotoxins in live bivalve mollusc (shellfish) in
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DECC: Permission was granted last week for a new 150MW dedicated biomass power station at Royal Portbury Dock in the
E.ON will also set up a Community Investment Fund, which will contribute £50,000 per annum for every year that the plant is operating, to support charitable and/or educational community projects. £75,000 will also be allocated to trial green buses and improve cycle routes in the local area.
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DECC: Energy Secretary, Edward Davey, has launched a competition worth up to £20m to fund the development of innovations in Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) technology. Bids are being invited to develop better & cheaper CCS components & systems for pilot scale demonstration.
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BIS: Business Minister Mark Prisk has named Gloucestershire Local
The Minister has also outlined the Government’s plan to create a simpler, single consumer bill of rights in place of the current 12 different sets of consumer legislation.
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WAG: Business,
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GPS: The new online CloudStore provides a cheaper, quicker & more transparent way to procure cloud-based ICT services, including email, word processing, system hosting, enterprise resource planning, electronic records management, customer relationship management or office productivity applications.
In this first tranche of the G-Cloud service catalogue you can now purchase around 1,700 ‘off-the-shelf’ IT services from CloudStore on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ basis rather than having to develop your own systems. This model means you can use what you want, when you want it, saving money by avoiding duplication of services that cannot be shared.