The drive for green energy sources is helping a West Sussex-based manufacturer to expand in spite of a weakening in its traditional semiconductor business.

Europe's governments must work together to deliver a "visible and stable" European energy policy or they will fail to attract the investment they need to meet sharply rising demand, according to Pierre Gadonneix, president of the World Energy Council and chairman of French energy group EDF.

Brighton and Hove, famous for its kiss-me-quick pier and hedonistic nightclub scene, is bidding to become the world's first city to be a Unesco "biosphere reserve".

Help the Aged and Friends of the Earth will launch a high court judicial review today to force the government to stand by promises made in 2000 to eradicate fuel poverty and help millions of households facing a winter of burgeoning gas and electricity bills.

Unilever, the food and consumer goods group, has thrown its weight behind moves to scrap mandatory biofuel targets and subsidies. It is backing recommendations being made today to Commonwealth finance ministers at their annual meeting in St Lucia to improve food security and prevent famine.

Britain’s power suppliers expect to be let off with a “slap on the legs” when a major report into allegations of profiteering is published today.

In an age of rapidly rising fuel bills the discovery of vast supplies of free hot water sounds too good to be true. But that is exactly what one Dutch city has found to run the radiators of hundreds of homes, shops and offices.

The Government has today accepted in full the recommendations of the National Council for Educational Excellence (NCEE) on how society as a whole must help the country achieve world class education.

Billions of dollars could be raised to help the poorest countries cope with and tackle climate change under proposals to be floated in London this week for new charges on international shipping.

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