National Craft Butchers (NCB), the trade body representing quality independent retail butchers, launched their first ever survey of British Butchers in July 2021, reaching out butchery businesses across Britain. The results are now out and demonstrate just why butchers are the first choice for consumers concerned about climate change.
The Highland Council is reminding communities that its winter gritting programme has started and will continue until 14 April 2022. As in previous years, the Council is offering assistance to communities who wish to take action in their own area to help clear snow and ice from footpaths.
EBRD warns of the negative impact of high commodity prices. Support for low-income households will be required.
More than 50 projects across Scotland are set to receive UK Government investment to help people into work, boost productivity and deliver net zero. The Community Renewal Fund will pilot new programmes that invest in people, boost skills and support local business - to build more communities that people are proud to call home. The £200 million Fund is supporting almost 500 projects in towns, villages and coastal communities across the whole United Kingdom to ensure that no place is left behind as the UK Government delivers on its commitment to level up the country.
A flock of kept birds in the Angus constituency have tested positive for avian influenza (H5N1). In order to limit the further spread of disease, appropriate restrictions have been imposed on the premises.
MOBILIST boosts growth in developing countries by investing in green infrastructure, technology and businesses. Mobilising Institutional Capital Through Listed Product Structures (MOBILIST), the UK's flagship programme to mobilise large scale investment through publicly listed markets, received a £66 million funding boost today at COP26 in Glasgow.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced its intention to double the mobilisation of private sector climate financing by 2025. The way to achieve this target was set out in an Action Plan on Mobilising Private Capital for Climate Finance, unveiled at COP26, the global climate summit.
Destination Net Zero will provide support to tourism businesses and destinations as they transition to a greener, more sustainable future. A key strand in the Scottish Government's COVID-19 Tourism Recovery Programme, the initiative includes the creation of a website offering practical advice for businesses when moving to low-carbon, an awareness-raising programme promoting net zero as good business and funding support, due to be announced later this year, for up to 250 businesses and at least two destinations to invest in carbon reduction activity.
Following a number of detections of avian influenza (bird flu) in wild birds across Great Britain, the Chief Veterinary Officers from England, Scotland and Wales have declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) across the whole of Great Britain to mitigate the risk of the disease spreading amongst poultry and captive birds. This means that from 1700 on Wednesday 3 November 2021 it will be a legal requirement for all bird keepers in Great Britain to follow strict biosecurity measures to help protect their flocks.
CBI event to be addressed by John Kerry, Jacinda Ardern, Rishi Sunak & Kwasi Kwarteng. Record levels of CEO attendance at COP 26 indicates that net zero is no longer about reputation, but about commercial opportunity Business ready, willing and able to deliver a net zero world.
Interim findings from the latest report of REACT-1, one of the largest studies into coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in England, have been published today. Over 67,000 volunteers took part in the study in England to examine the levels of COVID-19 in the general population between 19 and 29 October.
2,823 new cases of COVID-19 reported. 43,649 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results.
The video from Dr John Campbell gives the details.
As the nation starts planning for Christmas early to avoid supply shortages, new research reveals the misjudged gifts you should AVOID giving your friends and family. The research, from the UK's number one sharing app OLIO, found that 34 per cent thought that a dead plant was one of the worst gifts you could receive; with out-of-date chocolates next on the list (29 per cent) as well as loo roll (29 per cent); perfume that smells awful (26 per cent) and regifting someone the same thing they gave you last year all featuring as gifts that are most likely to end up straight in the bin.
The Scottish Government has published new guidance for emergency department teams to ensure people are being seen by the right person in the right place for their healthcare need. It has been developed in response to a request from NHS Boards to support hospitals to safely refer people to the most appropriate place for treatment, if they do not need emergency care.
Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil and gas criss-cross the site.
RMT, the UK's leading specialist transport union, has slammed the Department for Transport's ‘independent' review into financial ‘bad faith' on Southeastern railways, describing it as a ‘fatally compromised farce' in which the public could have no confidence. The union has called on the Public Accounts Committee to examine the actions of the Department for Transport and reiterated its demand that the government cancel its tendering process for the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise, currently held by the same company that ran Southeastern, and run it in public ownership through the Operator of Last Resort.
Tidal stream power has could deliver 11% of the UK's current annual electricity and play a significant role in the government's push for net-zero a new report suggests. UK scientists say that the power of the ocean's tidal streams can provide a predictable and reliable means of helping to meet the country's future energy demand.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 3rd) sold 544 adult head of breeding cattle. Heifer with heifer calf (10) sold to £1,600 gross for a Simmental with a September born Limousin cross calf from Wester Bleaton Farm, Bridge of Cally.
3,495* new cases of COVID-19 reported. 49,462* new tests for COVID-19 that reported results 7.5*% of these were positive.
