It has come to our attention at Plastic Surgeon just how much time, money and effort the construction industry is putting in to recycling components such as PVC-U windows and doors, with the whole process largely being driven by onerous Government legislation imposing financial penalties for failure.

If you are an avid fan of TV’s medical dramas like Holby City and Casualty, or just someone who takes notice of the national news, you cannot fail to have realised that the cleanliness and general state of repair in our hospitals is a major talking point.

Building involves too many trades for contracts or refurbs to go smoothly, and the closer you get to completion, the more hectic it becomes, and the more likely that one trade will damage another’s work. And that tradesmen’s eyes will be increasingly dim when it comes to the chips, scuffs, scratches and knocks....

School-children have for the past decade been taught about environmental matters: including greenhouse gases, energy saving and acid rain. The school curriculum from primary level through to the sixth form is almost unrecognisable from the narrow set of core subjects which were taught, back before...

The lengths to which proponents Global Warming theory will go to make their case was quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit and released 61 megs of confidential emails and files onto the internet.

By the time you read this, Burn’s Night will be well and truly over, the only memories lingering, perhaps, will be of haggis and neeps; plus the slight headache from quaffing too much Scotch during the celebrations. It would be interesting to know, though, how many people rushed out to buy that yearly bottle of whisky to toast the Scottish poet, and more importantly, where that wee dram came from.