A levy on large stores in Northern Ireland will come into affect from 1 April, after it passes its final stage in the assembly.

Experimental technology to capture, store and bury carbon emissions in geological formations is in line to receive a payout of as much as €1.37 billion from the EU’s energy infrastructure package, EurActiv has learned.  More »

So, Loma Linda, place in California where the health nuts hang out. And half the city are 7 th day Adventists. And McDonalds whishes to p[ollute the heaqlthy air of this mostly vegetarian town with a store selling burgers and the like. We know how this is going to turn out, don’t we? The freedom

The Daily Mail's Quentin Letts got to the meat of the week's news as he headed to the cold store to review the goings-on at Westminster over the last week.

When recently visiting my local Tesco store, I noticed they had removed a row of check out work stations and replaced them with even more self scanning tills. Given we are in a recession with unemployment into the millions, with youngsters being hardest hit. Far from trying to lesson the burden of unemployment, the curse of the modern age, and reducing the pressures customers come under when using...

The Deputy Prime Minister will launch today a campaign for a “well-rewarded workforce”, saying that businesses owned by their staff are more dynamic and have higher morale. He wants to encourage companies to follow the model of John Lewis, the department store group which is owned by its employees and distributes its profits between them.

Nag, nag, nag: If you click on that, you will see that this snap was snapped in a hardware store. A randomly selected one, as it happens, near to where I live. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, health and safety is, among other things, a business, and therefore an interest. If it diminished, money would be lost, money which knows it would be lost and which would therefore speak...

Here's what Jodi Miller is going to cover today! --Huge crowds will gather in New York City next week to ring in the year 2012 --In an act of Christmas kindness, strangers have been paying for people's layaway accounts at Kmart stores nationwide --Universal Studios' theme parks are celebrating Grinchmas this month --Sarah Palin announced a new plan to end insider trading on Wall Str...

A year ago I braved the November and December colds to be part of a protest outside London’s flagship Vodafone store. I was also roughly bundled out of Topshop in Oxford Circus, chanted ‘Philip Green pay your tax’ at the BHS store on the same street, and was there when Boots shut down their store

This, layaway. Is it something that exists in the UK? If so, at which stores?