SIR – It had been well flagged in the media that energy users should submit meter readings by March 31 for the specific purpose of preventing overcharging.
Fewer cars are broken into at night on roads with part-night lighting (PNL), where street lights are switched off between midnight and 5am, suggests new NIHR-funded research in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
The study team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and UCL, and funded by NIHR, examined detailed police recorded crime data from Thames Valley Police and data on changes to street lighting from April 2004 to September 2013.
When you pull your car up on a quiet street at night, do you park under a street light thinking it will dissuade a thief from breaking into your car? New research challenges that assumption, finding rates of vehicle theft drop when street lights are off.
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Doctors are regulated by the General Medical Council, dentists by the General Dental Council, pharmacists by the General Pharmaceutical Council and barristers by the Bar Standards Board.
There are around 11 Royal Colleges that review a doctor’s ability to practice. Although some dentists specialisein such a way that they have to join a medical college, their ability to practice as a dentist appears to be directly regulated by the British Dental Council.
Pharmacists become members of the Royal PharmaceuticalSociety, which only recently passed regulatory authority to a new body called the General Pharmaceutical Council. Although a pharmacist might work directly for a drugs company, in a hospital or in a community pharmacy they are all in the same society. The Bar Standards Board appears similar to the General Dental Council in that they oversee barristers almost directly.
NEW low-energy LED lights being installed across Swindon produce the softest light of all available and are not harmful to health, the council says. Its cabinet member for highways Maureen Penny, who is overseeing the £7m project to replace the boroughs 28,000 streetlamps, said lower intensity bulbs have been deliberately chosen. The authority has faced criticism for the brightness of new lights around the town, which have upset some residents. Coun Penny said these lights will be dimmable using a control system but only when the replacement scheme is completed, which is scheduled for November. She spoke out following a report by charity LightAware, which says too many councils are using lights with a lot of blue .