How do we define ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the commonplace, the local and the distinctive that tells us where we are
… England Vanishing 22nd September 2006 News Signs England Society UK Community Farming Diversity … ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the …
How one small English town took on a superstore - and won
… me why. ‘We’re one of the last ironmongers in England ,’ he says. ‘It’s all B&Q now, isn’t … ‘It’s old family firms like this that built England ,’ he declares, proudly. ‘Sheringham … only town of six or seven thousand people in England that doesn’t straddle a main road? …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
… one of the most populated parts of south-east England, only minutes away from housing … determined, respectable, middle-aged middle Englanders who have set up a spirited and …
The UK’s most successful NGO is based in a Dorset village, with no members or PR team. Paul Kingsnorth meets the duo behind it…
… a celebration of our native fruit, the apple. England grows more varieties of apple than any … King are busier than ever. Their new book, England in Particular, a celebration of … 01747 850820, www.commonground.org.uk/ www.england-in-particular.info/ This article first …
Over 1,000 juvenile delinquents showed a 44 per cent drop in antisocial behaviour when put on a low sugar diet. So why is the government completely ignoring what we are feeding our children, and yet is happy to spend £2,500 on administering each ASBO?
… war on crime, the ‘Together Campaign’, across England and Wales – sold to the public as a …
Obesity is a problem that is chronic, stigmatised, costly to treat and rarely curable. Why? Because we are looking in the wrong places for a solution. Pat Thomas reports
… data from two surveys – the Health Survey for England and the British Market Research …
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trials
in Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates
… the rules for commercial GM crop growing in England – yet astonishingly, it proposes no …