May 5th, 2012 by Investec Bank Channel Islands Limited
THE Euro crisis will be at the centre of a presentation by Philip Shaw, Investec’s chief economist, who will lead a breakfast briefing in Guernsey on Tuesday 15 May 2012 focusing on fears over Spanish fiscal policy with key elections in France and Greece. ‘UK growth disappointed last year with a number of factors resulting […]
July 1st, 2011 by University of Bath
Researcher at the University of Bath‘s Economics Department find that reducing the frequency of household bin collections is the key to increasing recycling rates. This finding of a UK-wide study examining why recycling rates differ across the UK counters political and community criticisms that local authority moves to fortnightly or alternate weekly bin collections is […]
July 14th, 2010 by Richard Lord
The Guardian newspaper reports on straw bale construction research at the University of Bath in their article Is straw the building material of the future? Researchers from the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials at the University of Bath have built a balehaus made of prefabricated straw and hemp panels to test how they perform […]