WILTSHIRE WASTE WILL GENERATE POWER

Rubbish from homes in the Salisbury area is to be used to generate power for the National Grid after Wiltshire County Council agreed a 25-year deal with Lakeside Energy from Waste Ltd. The agreement will see 50,000 tonnes a year of household waste from the south of the county going to a new energy from waste plant near Slough from next year.

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INTERVENTION PROJECTS TO TACKLE NUISANCE NEIGHBOURS

A network of intervention projects is being established in 53 areas of England to help local communities deal with problem families and nuisance neighbours. The announcement came on the day that new statistics in the Social Trends Survey showed complaints about noisy neighbours had increased fivefold in the past two decades.

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This report from the Legal Services Research Centre provides clear evidence of the positive impact debt advice can have. It also confirms that debt problems can have a major impact on people’s lives, bringing about ill-health, relationship breakdown, loss of employment, as well as distressing impacts on parents’ relationships with their children.It is estimated that 3.7 million people have serious financial problems.

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