05 January 2017 Week in Brief: UK NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS: Concerns have been expressed that the nuclear regulator has down-played accidents which may have been more serious that it has been prepared to admit. Incidents have been dismissed as posing no safety threat. The Department for Work and Pensions, which has responsibility for the regulator, is investigating. VOLKSWAGEN: Criticisms have been… Continue reading Issue 86: 2017 01 15: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 22:2015 10 01:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
1 October 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have captured the northern city of Kunduz. BANGLADESH: An Italian aid worker was shot dead in Dhaka. ISIS have claimed responsibility for the murder. BURKINA FASO: Last week’s military coup has failed. Soldiers have withdrawn from the capital Ouagadougou. The transitional government of interim president… Continue reading Issue 22:2015 10 01:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Week in Brief: UK
24 September 2015 Week in Brief: UK LABOUR: Major Labour donor, Assem Allam, who has given £720,000 to the party over the last five years, has offered to provide financial support for the formation of a new centre left party or to those Labour MPs who are prepared to defect to the Liberal Democrats. John… Continue reading Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
24 September 2015 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY BREAKDOWN: The extraordinary confession by Volkswagen Group that it had carried out sophisticated amendments to the software which governs its car engine management systems, so that when the engine is under test it will reduce emissions to meet USA standards – which the engines in normal… Continue reading Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
