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...greenest of the green join Carbon Ration Action Groups (CRAGS), whose members pledge to reduce their personal carbon dioxide emissions. There are already 14 active CRAG chapters across Britain, but so far none elsewhere in the world. To Surrey CRAG member Jonathan Essex - who stays under his carbon limit by avoiding air travel - that just means Britain has to embrace its leadership role on the environment. "We've got to set an example for others to follow," he says...
...said Chen of his two-year absence managing the store. “It means a lot to me to be a member of the neighborhood again.” Chen handed over ownership of the Superette, which is across from Mather House on the corner of Cowperthwaite and Surrey Streets, to Pritam “Tony” S. Saini in July 2005. While Chen retained ownership of the Superette’s real estate, Saini took over as store manager. A few months later, however, it became clear that things were not going as Chen had hoped...
When a new outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) was confirmed on a cattle farm in Surrey, southern England, in early August, Britain braced for the worst. In 2001, the last time the U.K. was hit by this highly contagious illness affecting cloven-hoofed animals, it led to the slaughter and incineration of over 6.5 million animals and cost the country $17 billion. This time, the containment zones that were set up around the affected area right after the first case was reported (a move that took days last time) and a ban on the movement of livestock across...
...While quarantine has improved, prevention has not. How did the cows catch the virus in the first place? A government investigation is focusing on two biological research labs at the Pirbright complex, 3 miles (4.8 km) from where this outbreak first appeared. The same strain of FMD found in Surrey's infected cattle is used by the state-run Institute for Animal Health and by the private firm Merial for research and vaccine making...
...less than a week in the Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak of 1967 - the worst outbreak of the disease in Britain until the infamous 2001 epidemic. The virus that caused the outbreak - later termed 01 BFS67 - was isolated, and a sample sent to a secure research facility in Pirbright, Surrey, for future work on vaccines...