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Council recycling drive saves Borough £300,000

Rochdale's Environment & Sustainability Cabinet member, Wera Hobhouse has thanked residents across the borough "for making recycling work." This comes with the news that because of the recycling effort made in the borough, the council has managed to save £300,000.

1 Oct 2007
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View from the Commons-More of the same?

We now have a new Prime Minister - although no one not even Labour Party members had any say in the matter. What though if anything will change? Gordon has trailed some changes in the way Government works -but will any policies change or will it just be more of the same? On policy Gordon says he wants to tackle the NHS, Crime and Housing, but where has he been for the last 10 years? The answer is that he has been at the centre of Government as Blair's number two and controller of the purse strings.

1 Oct 2007
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Lib Dems restate support for EDCM

At the Liberal Democrat conference on Monday 17th September, shadow Ministers Danny Alexander MP and Annette Brooke MP restated their support for the EDCM campaign objective of rights and justice for every disabled child. At the EDCM fringe meeting last night, Trevor Phillips, chair of the new Commission on Equality and Human Rights, described disabled children as a 'canary indicator' to show how far our society has progressed towards equality and respect for difference.

1 Oct 2007
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Chocolate 'aids fatigue syndrome'

A daily dose of specially-formulated dark chocolate may help cut chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms. Patients in a pilot study found they had less fatigue when eating dark chocolate with a high cocoa content than with white chocolate dyed brown.

1 Oct 2007
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Simple diabetes breath test hope

Scientists say it may be possible to use a breath test to monitor blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. US researchers have discovered people with type 1 diabetes exhale higher levels of methyl nitrates when their blood sugar levels are too high.

1 Oct 2007
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