In a bid to help bridge the e-Safety gap between school and home, three Local Authorities including EnglandÂ’s largest, Birmingham City Council, have partnered with Forensic Software Limited, manufacturers of the e-Safety product Policy Central Enterprise (PCE) to offer all parents of school age children within its jurisdiction a free e-safety product for in-home use.

Food products from healthy, cloned animals pose no greater risk than comparable products from conventionally bred counterparts, Europe's food safety watchdog says

Whether product placement should be allowed in TV shows or not. Hmm, difficult question. …ministers are consulting on whether to implement part of a European directive, which would allow product placement in the UK from as early as 2010. Under the proposals advertisers would be able to pay to have products

Representatives of the three agreed in Brussels to work towards synchronising safety standards for children's toys in the first trilateral summit on product safety

A record number of 7,354 of food safety alerts and notifications were sent out through the EU's rapid alert system last year. Over a fifth of the alerts concerned fish products contaminated by heavy metals, while most of the products notified came from China.

Officials yesterday (17 November) agreed to enhance cooperation on consumer product and food safety issues at a tripartite summit in Brussels. The meeting came after a series of public scares involving Chinese toys and tainted milk marked trade relations between the three blocs. 

Welsh Assembly Government - The Statistical Release Housing Demolitions and Hazards in Wales include data for the financial year 2007-08.

All Irish pork products have been recalled tonight because of fears that European Union directives have failed, animal feed covered by the directives have been contaminated with harmful toxins. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland made the announcement shortly before 8pm after pork products on a number of farms were found to have had between 80 and 200 times more dioxins that the recognised safety...

You would think from the news that the BANKS were the most important things in the British Economy. And I’m afraid you would be RIGHT. The financial sector is far and away the largest contributor to Great Britain’s Gross Domestic Product; our exports of financial services in 2007 amounted to TWENTY-ONE billion pounds, almost a tenth of

Every attempt to make banks more responsible has made them more reckless. Unless the sector is radically reformed, future meltdowns will make the current crisis look routine As the financial chaos that began with the collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 enters its second year, the question is: where do we want to be? Are the banks, as the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has said,...