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The ex-governor with nearly 20 years in the prison service tells Erwin James why becoming chief executive of Nacro is not a move by the crime reduction charity to run jails but to influence government penal policyIn all my experience of prisons, inside and out, I don't think I have ever met a man more committed to prison wo (Read More)
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The web has given rise to a new breed of fashion guru. You no longer have to be a celebrity or model – just a fashion enthusiast happy to put yourself on the line, online. Kelly Bowerbank picks out 10 of 2009's cyber sagesWhat do Reese Witherspoon and Tavi, a self-proclaimed "tiny 13-year-old dork", have in common? They're (Read More)
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The argument over file sharing is redundant: creative businesses must change, and the social value of free must be recognisedStewart Brand, during the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, uttered the infamous maxim, "Information wants to be free". The implication was that any attempt to control and limit the free disseminatio (Read More)
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SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have already seen The Wire in its entirety. This week: Prezbo gets a shock, and Omar goes out for CheeriosThe Wire: the bookThe Wire Re-up: The Guardian's Guide to the Greatest TV Show Ever Made is available for pre-ordering now from Guardian Books. It will be in the shops so (Read More)
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The furore over the climate scientists' emails has given an unexpected boost to global warming sceptics on both sides of the Atlantic, but none outside that small circle believe the affair will divert governments, businesses or communities from seeking a low-carbon future.The affair lifted the launch, announced in The Times (Read More)
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The Conservatives make an ambitious pitch to win the environmental vote with a raft of measuresThe Conservatives will tomorrow make an ambitious pitch to win the environmental vote with a raft of measures including plans to pay the public to recycle and a promise to cut government emissions by 10% within 12 months of taking (Read More)
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• Barack Obama to announce target in next three weeks• Figure to be provisional in nature, officials sayThe White House said today it would go to the Copenhagen climate change summit with a proposed target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions after facing international pressure to commit to stronger action on climate chang (Read More)
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This is a joint statement from the Met Office, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Royal Society on the state of the science of climate change ahead of the Copenhagen climate conferenceThe UK is at the forefront of tackling dangerous climate change, underpinned by world class scientific expertise and advice. Cr (Read More)
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Following the collapse of six bridges in Cumbria, how worried should we be about the strength of others spanning our rivers?When Workington's Northside bridge, the Victorian stone structure that used to span the River Derwent in Cumbria, had its routine check in July last year, no reason was found to suppose it wouldn't las (Read More)
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Even at the best of times, it is hard to predict the future. To forecast an unprecedented flood is harder still, and to protect effectively against such a flood hardest of all. Yet the serious flood damage in Cockermouth and other parts of Cumbria over the past few days ought nevertheless to be a wake-up call to Britain. We (Read More)
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Many schools find that National Challenge status has actually made it harder to improveIn the classrooms of Canterbury high school, students are receiving what Ofsted last year described as an "outstanding" education. Outside, meanwhile, the rest of the school is a 2012 Olympic training facility, with an indoor tennis centr (Read More)
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• Online publication seized on by denial bloggers• No evidence that data was falsified, says Met OfficeThe University of East Anglia is to launch a review into the theft and online publication of hundreds of emails sent by scientists in its climate research unit.Selected and unverified extracts from the emails have been use (Read More)
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The leaked exchanges are disturbing, but it would take a conspiracy of a very different order to justify sceptics' claimsIt's no use pretending this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that t (Read More)
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City refuse workers vote to return to work after improved offer from councilThe three-month bin strike in Leeds ended today after 600 refuse workers voted overwhelmingly to accept an improved offer from the city council.Refuse trucks and street-sweeping vans will return to their rounds by the end of the week, following two (Read More)
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Instead of targeting high-profile science communicators, climate deniers are now encouraging mistrust of those who collect and interpret global warming dataThe theft and web publication by climate change deniers of private emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit is an extremely worrying developmen (Read More)