MoD: UK supports training of Egyptian Armed Forces – (MoD: UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial: Summary ~ MoD: LOGNET - The Future Defence Logistics Customer ~ Defence Secretary reaffirms strong ties with Kuwait)
Dstl: Wearable sensors to help troops on the frontline
Home Secretary honours special constables & police volunteers
DCMS: Right to Buy - more than 56,000 new homeowners across the country
HMRC: More than 5m customers are using HMRC’s Personal Tax Account
LGA: Make traffic light labelling mandatory – (LGA: Judicial review backs councils' call for commercial waste VAT exemption to remain ~ LGA: New powers needed to help councils tackle huge business rate debts)
FSA Chief Scientific Adviser outlines the challenges of Antimicrobial Resistance
ScotGov: Scottish universities make top 200 – (ScotGov: UEFA European Youth Championships bid ~ ScotGov: Funding boost for proposed station at Robroyston)
Defra: Asian hornet identified in Gloucestershire
Emma Howard Boyd appointed Chair of the Environment Agency – (EA: Oil & gas regulators to host public drop-in)
RAIB: Occupied wheelchair contacting passing train - update
Cefas: Koi herpesvirus disease outbreak confirmed in Cambridgeshire
Ofwat: Competition in residential retail water market could prevent customers being left behind ~ Ofwat: PN 14/16 Competition in residential retail water market could prevent customers being left behind
CCW: Water must learn from energy market if competition is pursued – (CCW: September 21st Customer Complaints Report Roundup)
Ofgem welcomes Energy Theft hotline launch, with Crimestoppers – (Ofgem: E.ON pays £3.1m after its agents missed appointments ~ Ofgem publishes bi-annual survey on how suppliers handle complaints)
TfL: Minimising disruption during essential Tower Bridge closure – (TfL: Diversions planned for essential bridge works)
CCC: Energy policy is about more than Hinkley
CCC welcomes news that UK Government will take steps to ratify Paris Agreement ~ CBI responds to the Prime Minister's climate change commitment ~ Unicef: Statement on UK commitment to ratify Paris climate change agreement ~ WWF: Ratification of Paris agreement)
Arts Council England: Making a museum – (ACE: Over £700k of investment for Touring)
TUC Survey: Nearly half of workplaces have never had a visit from a health & safety inspector – (TUC: Pension enrolment up but adequacy still needs addressing urgently)
Met Office: Name Our Storms 2016
ESRC Longitudinal Studies Review 2017 – (ESRC: UN Summit to hear new research on why refugees & migrants crossed the Mediterranean in 2015 ~ ESRC: Festival of Social Science events programme published ~ ESRC joins forces with the US's Rockefeller Foundation and NERC to achieve the UN's Global Goals ~ ESRC: Floods severely affect children & young people: it's time to stop ignoring their experience)
Ordnance Survey relaunches road maps
RoSPA: European-wide drive to push down the number of deaths on the road – (Driven NHS worker wins RoSPA’s Archangel Award)
Unicef calls for an increase in education spending as new report reveals global crisis in learning – (Unicef statement on the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants)
WWF: British companies ‘leading the way’ in palm oil sustainability
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