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...Britain announced plans earlier this month for 18 new offshore wind farms as part of the Labour government's effort to ensure that 10% of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources by 2010. Last June, a study by the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change showed Britain among the most probable nations to meet the targets. Greenhouse gases dropped 6.5% between 1998 and 1999 alone, Environment Ministry officials boast, while toxic CO2 emissions have been cut by 9% between 1990 and 1999. Potentially quadrupling current British wind power, the sites will be home to some 500 turbines expected...
...wishes so badly to win. The prime minister's decision about the date may be the last surprise of the campaign. Nothing the Tories do, not even 54 percent disapproval in a recent MORI poll of the way the government has handled foot-and-mouth, can seem to shake Labour's steady 15- to 20-point lead when people report how they plan to vote...
...Labour party machine grumbled about having to rework long-polished plans for ad buys and ministerial appearances. Otherwise, Blair's postponement was considered a smart move, blunting the Tories' accusations that he is arrogant and puts party above country. Full Story...
...Reel Nasty How About Bill Clinton in American Pie II? Britain's ruling labour party, gearing up for a possible general election in may, has produced a campaign video based on the 1976 horror flick The Omen. The short, Economic Disaster II, depicts Tory leader William Hague as the offspring of an Antichrist played by Margaret Thacher. The tagline: "They forgot one thing?there was a son." Elections are looming elsewhere?and the world's film archives are filled with potential spoof material. JAPAN Throw Mori from the Train Nobody likes him?but he's damned hard...
...good at it, too. The tiny lobby group Business for Sterling, of which he is campaign director, has repeatedly derailed Labour's fearsome public relations machine in its efforts to make euro membership look desirable and inevitable. Polls show that two-thirds of British voters now want to retain the pound...