Last updated: Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Lifestyle & Culture News

Folding plug wins Brit Insurance Design award

A folding plug designed to fold flat for easy transportation has been crowned the overall winner at the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards in London.

Ireland’s Your Country, Your Call

Ireland has launched a competition – Your Country, Your Call – to encourage the public to put forward proposals that will secure prosperity and jobs in the country, with each of the two winners receiving €100,000.

Lord Patten wants university tuition fees uncapped

Oxford University Chancellor Lord Patten of Barnes has announced in a speech that university tuition fees should be uncapped to help meet the cost of teaching students.

Drivers gloomy at record petrol price prediction

The AA is warning of a surge in petrol prices and is calling on the UK government to scrap the impending 3p rise in petrol duty due to come in on 1 April 2010.

Heathrow Terminal 2 contract signed by BAA & HETCo

Joint venture HETCo – Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke – has officially signed the £812 million deal with BAA to build its new Terminal 2 at London’s Heathrow Airport.

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