Full Coverage: United Kingdom

30.06.2006 The determination of Britain's political elite to maintain the country as a nuclear-weapons state is rooted in a half-century of military planning to which the possibility of tactical and first use of nuclear weapons is central, says Paul Rogers.

28.06.2006 Comedian Robert Newman returns to London's Tricycle Theatre on 3-15 July with No Planet B - The History Of The World Backwards, "a meditation on the massive social changes which are coming to us all as a result of Peak Oil and Cimate Chaos; and a critique of European power in the world."

28.06.2006 UK Prime Minister Tony Blair set a one-year deadline for a new global deal on climate change.

27.06.2006 The British government's emphasis on full employment threatens to strip neighbourhoods of the people who make the difference between success and failure of public services - such as volunteers, care workers and 'co-producers', says a study published today.

27.06.2006 As East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns, Britain is urged to address past atrocities to East Timorese people under Indonesian rule that are hampering the country's democracy.

27.06.2006 An advertising campaign to raise awareness of obstetric fistula - a devastating injury that leaves women with agonising pain, chronic incontinence and, often, a stillborn baby - was launched in London today by singer/actress Natalie Imbruglia, Baroness Amos and public health experts.

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27.06.2006 Proposals by the Welsh government could dramatically reduce local carbon dioxide emissions and pave the way for every homeowner in Wales to produce their own energy through installing affordable small-scale heat and/or electricity systems.

27.06.2006 As Tony Blair and Gordon Brown announced the formation of a panel to review G8 commitments on poverty, a leading development charity said that world leaders needed to act now to honour the pledges made at the G8 summit at Gleneagles last July.
+ G8 failing tomake poverty history

26.06.2006 The government is to sweep away planning restrictions so that millions of homeowners can put wind turbines and solar panels on their houses.

26.06.2006 British aid money is being used to push water privatisation on poor countries - making it less likely that clean water will ever get to the poorest people. And while poor people lose out, a group of big UK companies are profiting from this aid. Take part in the Whose Rules Rule conference in London on 8 July to discuss the issues.

26.06.2006 A new handbook encouraging the investigation and documentation of state-sanctioned torture in the hope of preventing further abuse is to be distributed by British diplomats to health professionals around the world.

23.06.2006 Households in the London Borough of Camden emit the lowest amounts of domestic CO2, according to a survey of all local authorities across the UK.

22.06.2006 Major electronics retailers including Asda and Sainsbury's are being called on to stock more energy efficient goods in a bid to cut carbon emissions.

21.06.2006 Confess at the Earthly Sins Confessional: after which you will be asked to take a pledge - three simple lifestyle changes that will help to relieve guilt and kick start the path to a cleaner more equitable world. It's part of the UK's first ever Interdependence Day at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

21.06.2006 Civil society organisations need to rethink the ways in which they attempt to influence government policy processes, according to a new report published by the Overseas Development Institute today.

21.06.2006 The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has said he would ‘favour’ increasing the congestion charge to £20 for the most heavily polluting vehicles.

20.06.2006 The British police risk damaging their credibility and community relations when they make mistakes in their use of anti-terror laws or use them for non-terrorism purposes, the government's terror law watchdog warned yesterday.
* Customs officers 'no deterrent to terrorism'
* Executive jets seen to pose terror risk

20.06.2006 Following a legal ruling that three British men and a Canadian tortured in Saudi Arabia cannot sue the men responsible for their ordeal, the British government has been accused of ignoring the suffering of its own citizens while backing the servants of a state that routinely uses torture.

20.06.2006 A London woman has been jailed after she infected one of her sexual partners with HIV.

20.06.2006 Visitors to Scotland will be asked to opt-in to a new ‘green tax’ under a revolutionary scheme being drawn up by tourism chiefs, environmental groups and the business community.