Social networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable energy. In one of the web’s fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace international says at least 500,000 people have now protested at the organisation’s intention to run its giant new data centre mainly on electricity

Few would have guessed that in the months when eurozone leaders held crisis meetings to ensure the very survival of the bloc, their combined economies were growing at their fastest for three years

Alistair Darling MP, Labour's Shadow Chancellor said: "Today figures show the results of the Labour Government’s approach to supporting the recovery. "This is the fastest growth we have seen for over four years. It shows that confidence was returning. And you can see the success of maintaining support for important sectors like construction. "And this is the final nail in the coffin of ...

During the Labour years London grew fastest, Scotland, Wales and the North slowest. The more public money Labour threw at the poorer and slower growing areas, the more the gap grew in favour of London and the South east. (1998-Q3 2006 London grew 41%, Scotland 16% – from “Freeing Britain to

Industrial orders in the eurozone jumped at their fastest rate in almost three years in March, as a weakening euro helped boost demand despite flagging consumer confidence

I don't know if you saw BBC Breakfast this morning, but they featured an item about a small village in Rutland who, fed up of slow speed Internet connections, decided to band together to get high speed broadband access. They got together with a local telecoms company and now have the fastest rural broadband access in the country. Good for them. I really hope Dave was watching too - because it...

A 300 per cent increase in the price of copper has led to metal theft becoming the fastest-growing crime in the UK. Criminals sell the cable on to scrap dealers who ship it abroad. An epidemic of thefts is thought to have cost British Telecom several million pounds already this year. Last week thieves tore up manhole covers

Industrial production in the eurozone grows at its fastest level for over 20 years in January, amid signs of a far more sustained recovery than had been seen previously

The Conservatives say they would make Britain the first country in Europe with widespread super-fast broadband.

The UK inflation rate rose to 3.5% in January from 2.9%, figures show, the fastest annual pace for 14 months.