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A new investigation has been launched following claims that pension data is being sold to fraudsters and cold-calling companies... According to an investigation by the Daily Mail, firms have sold information regarding salaries, investment values, and pension size without consent. Undercover reporters from the newspaper were able to buy pension...

As National Apprenticeship Week draws to a close, Adjacent Digital Politics examines the value of these training schemes and how they can help young people... Since taking power, the coalition government has been keen to push apprenticeships as an alternative method of training for the workplace. Many of the largest...

Only put in what you want to get out: Clare McDermott, from the Soil Association describes how an organic system keeps it natural… Organic is a term defined by law. Any food labelled as organic must meet a strict set of standards so even if produce has been grown organically, to...

MPs have voted in favour of introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes in the UK... The issue of plain packaging on cigarettes may have divided opinion in the past, but the issue has taken one step closer to reality after MPs voted in favour of plain packaging. The law now has...

Prof Dr Henk W Broer and Dr Alef E Sterk from the University of Groningen discuss how mathematical modelling offers a fruitful approach towards understanding climatic extremes… Dynamical systems are mathematical models for everything that evolves in time. For example springs and pendulum clocks. More complicated examples are the atmosphere...

Drivers who stay too long on council owned car parks are to get a 10 minute leeway before being fined, the government has announced… Expected to take effect later this month, the new leeway will apply to free and paid-for-parking spaces on both streets and off-street car parks. The 10 minute...

The government has today launched a new fuel poverty strategy which sets out a revolutionary approach to identifying and targeting England’s energy efficient homes… For the first time, future governments will be required by law to tackle fuel poverty by making the coldest, leakiest homes in England more energy inefficient. This...

Most people will be aware that they must never use a lift to move around a building in the event of a fire. Some people don’t like lifts anyway, and others have no choice but to use them – unless there isn’t a lift in the first place. That last...

A report published by MPs has said the UK should be given the regulatory power to grow genetically-modified crops... The current European Union rules for genetically-modified (GM) crops are “politicised and unscientific”, according to new report from a committee of MPs. Andrew Miller, the chair of the science and technology committee,...

Anne Hayes, Head of Market Development for Governance & Risk at BSI shows that the latest revision of the hospital cleanliness specification is not only about improving hygiene levels but patient trust According to the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry by Robert Francis QC in February 2013, “A...

Portable ultrasound is a powerful bedside tool used to evaluate lung pathology in patients in whom pneumothorax, congestive heart failure, and interstitial lung disease are considered in the differential diagnosis Portable ultrasound has several advantages over more traditional radiographic imaging modalities used in the evaluation of lung pathology. Thoracic ultrasound...

People with and without dementia share a common world. Yet, their daily lives are mostly separate. The challenge, however, is not to ignore the up to 1.5 million people suffering from dementia and their families in Germany, of which 80,000 are living in Rhineland-Palatinate. We have to understand them...

We stride confidently toward a vast catastrophe. Willingly blind to the consequences of our profligate burning of fossil fuels, we speak in hushed tones, if we speak at all, of the accelerating changes in the world’s climate that will wreak havoc for humanity and many other species for centuries....

Prof Dr Henk W Broer and Dr Alef E Sterk from the University of Groningen discuss how mathematical modelling offers a fruitful approach towards understanding climatic extremes Dynamical systems are mathematical models for everything that evolves in time. For example springs and pendulum clocks. More complicated examples are the atmosphere...

A House of Lords Committee has raised concerns about plans to transfer power from Westminster to Holyrood in a bid to give 16- and 17-year-olds the vote... The proposal to give 16- and 17-year-olds the vote in Scotland was met with concern by the House of Lords Constitution Committee, despite...

Are we ready? On 29th January 2015, CDM2015 gained parliamentary approval, and will therefore come into force on 6th April 2015. As the final version of the regulations have only just been published and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) only issued the draft Guidances for CDM2015 on 9th January...

Councillor Martin Phillips, Cabinet Member for Community Engagement at Buckinghamshire County Council, talks about the work being done in the county to stop young people becoming radicalised… Last year, a former Buckinghamshire grammar school pupil went to Syria to join Islamic State. According to reports he was radicalised through jihadis on...

A new report has suggested the way in which the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Policing Board measures the impact of crime could be improved... The report forms part of a policy aimed at improving policing across Northern Ireland. Reviews into the efficiency of the Police Service of...

David Cameron is set to announce a shake up of the welfare system that will effect around 50,000 18- to 21-year-olds if the Conservative party wins the general election... It is coming up to that time in the calendar most of us dread: general election time. For the last few...

Steven Bone, Director at The Capital Allowances Partnership Ltd explains the tax relief on offer under the capital allowance scheme and what it can mean for businesses… Clients with building projects can save substantial amounts of tax by claiming capital allowances. This is tantamount to securing a Government funded discount...