A reservoir of fruit genetics [print version]
Britain does have a National Fruit Collection at Brogdale in Kent – still the largest fruit collection in the world growing on one site.
Britain does have a National Fruit Collection at Brogdale in Kent – still the largest fruit collection in the world growing on one site.
It is not easy to take control of your future when your energy supply is uncertain as it is in Britain
Instead of looking abroad, Rolls-Royce would do well to follow the example of another local company, Hope Technology.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a “New Deal for Britain” at the end of June with the mantra “Build build build”. But as the Unite union says, you can’t build without builders...
Hydrogen has a huge potential to deliver clean energy. That’s why our scientific community is pursuing an alternative vision, investigating hydrogen as a potential power source.
At the University of Glasgow the university and the union have reached a joint agreement about coping with the new situation.
The British working class has a good history of “doing the 24-hour job” and asking the questions at the same time – during the Second World War, for example.
Fishing for Leave (ffl.org.uk) has posted its key demands for the future organisation of fishing in British waters
Too many people don’t recognise the importance of national unity for the development of a thriving Britain.
The University and College Union (UCU) has rightly refused to agree to huge increases in the staff pensions contributions to the main universities pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
In 2010, a huge new oilfield was discovered in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, west of Stavanger.
It’s a funny old world when you can look at a 100 per cent British wool men’s suit in Marks and Spencer and discover that it has been manufactured in Cambodia.
In June 2017 the European Commission issued an official communication and an accompanying staff working document calling for member states to implement restrictions on the right to strike in air traffic control.
The Addison Act of 1919 had given council housing a national character, funded nationally through the ring-fenced Housing Revenue Account (HRA). Borrowing was at a low rate linked to government gilts to offset risk.
Modern farming relies on industrial production. We can grow food but can we make a tractor?
Do we have the education and skills to be an independent country?
The value embodied in British-made steel is one of the main reasons why the Scunthorpe works should remain open.
The EU: mired in debt, riven by division and dissent, doomed to decline…
Britain’s fishing fleet needs new boats, and skilled workers. Some 60 per cent of our fishing fleet has been scrapped over the years.
All political parties have shown themselves ready to sell out fishing at the merest hint from their Brussels controllers.
The fragmentation of Britain’s railways has its roots in an EEC directive (91/440/EEC) handed down in 1991. This directive decreed the separation of infrastructure from train operations, with the express purpose of creating a competitive market. It was the blueprint used by John Major for the Conservative government’s privatisation of Britain’s railways from 1994 to 1996.
The Labour Party is mired in monumental confusion over the future direction of the railways. Nationally, its policy is to return the railways to public ownership and control. But since privatisation, whenever it has been in power, it has done the reverse.
The RMT was prominent in reacting to the farcical award of a contract for ferry services to Seaborne Freight, a company with no ships.
Those who voted for Brexit, as well as those who have come to believe in and respect it, do not have the luxury of sitting back and spectating events.
The future of large swathes of home care provision for elderly and disabled people hung in the balance in December as major provider fought to stay solvent.
University researchers, no longer public servants but workers in a global business world, are everywhere under the triple cosh to get research grants, demonstrate “impact” and write papers for research journals.
Poverty used to be synonymous with unemployment. Of course, there have always been poverty wages.
Theresa May’s Withdrawal Treaty would require Britain to comply with EU defence directives and therefore with the European Court of Justice, which would supervise the treaty’s implementation.
There is one country where there is no “Valley of Death” where lack of investment chokes off new biotech products – Cuba.
Forty years ago researchers created a synthetic form of insulin, the hormone that controls levels of sugar in the blood. Some greens weren’t happy.