Age UK's petition to save the social care system (Age UK)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Nov 2015
(Source. Age UK) Today campaigners from Age UK will hand in a petition of over 50,000 signatures to Downing Street in a call for Government to put an end to its catastrophic cuts to adult social care ... Currently, more than a million older people are left to struggle each day without any support ... Age UK reluctantly agreed this was the right approach, but only on the basis that £6bm would be invested in sustaining social care ... ENDS Age UK....

Siding Spring observatory under threat from coal seam gas light pollution

Edit The Guardian 21 Oct 2014
Astronomers warn light pollution from planned Santos coal seam gas developments in NSW may force Australia’s top observatory to close. A flare from Santos’s coal seam gas test drilling in Narrabri. Photograph. Supplied ... This environment allowed the observatory’s powerful SkyMapper telescope to discover the oldest known star, at 13.6bm years old, earlier this year ... Test drilling has already taken place in Narrabri ... Photograph. Santos ... ....
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