Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
By AMY HUNT EVERY single one of us must work to tackle climate change, as we will all feel the effects. That is the message to Chronicle readers from Environment Secretary Hilary Benn.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Hilary Benn visited the region for a tour of land stewardship schemes. Organised by Natural England, the tour was an opportunity for farmers and land managers in North Yorkshire to showcase the environmental benefits of moorland management schemes.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Protesters dressed up as Gordon Brown and Hilary Benn at the site of a week-long environmental protest yesterday.
The Last Boy Scout (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Envionment Secretary Hilary Benn has backed a raft of new measures to reduce household waste. Unsurprisingly the answer is "on the spot fines". The guidance for Town Halls has recommended on the spot fines of £110, for offences like over filling of your bins, or not correctly seperating your recyclables. What annoys me is the amount, £110! When you compare that to the on the spot fines of £80 for shoplifting,...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The leftist scum in power continue to target the law-abiding house-owner. Householders who put too much rubbish in their bins face tougher punishments than shoplifters and drunken louts. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has backed on-the-spot fines of up to £110 for those who overfill their bins, leave them out too early, or put out extra sacks of rubbish alongside them. The price of defying rubbish...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Ministers have endorsed bigger punishments for families who break wheelie bin rules than for shoplifters. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn backed on-the-spot fines of up to £110 for 'offenders'.
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
The Sun's online article on a possible reshuffle tips Environment Secretary Hilary Benn to be on HER way out. Ruth Kelly, will naturally keep his post...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
David Miliband or Ed Miliband, tough choice isn't it? You can also "enjoy" the equally viable Hilary Benn. I know I have posted this video before but since David Miliband is accused of wanting to be our Prime Minister, I think it only right that the public see him in all his glory.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
WARWICKSHIRE' S wildlife experts are welcoming a massive survey of creatures and their habitats. Environment secretary Hilary Benn has launched a two-year project to build the most comprehensive picture of wildlife and natural environment the UK has ever seen.
ANTI NEW WORLD ORDER (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Daily Mail A Cabinet minister welcomed spiralling petrol prices last night as an incentive for drivers to make fewer car journeys. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the high cost of oil helps force people off the road and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He also launched a robust defence of road tax rises for more than 9million cars - insisting it was right that they should also apply to second-hand...
Nation of Shopkeepers (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
The BBC / Nu Labour alliance attempts to cleanse the countryside of industry, in order to clear the way for a construction of a Champagne socialist playground (and to settle a few old scores), and to heard non compliant people into ‘mini ghetto’s’ (under the guise of ‘global warming’ and ‘Eco Towns’) has had it’s [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
The environment minister announced on Wednesday that British state schools are to be included under the government's new domestic carbon emissions trading scheme from April 2010.Hilary Benn said that energy use in schools will be measured and count toward the emissions permit quotas of local authorities, which in turn will be encouraged to advise schools on energy efficiency."Young people stand to...
An Inconvenient Blog (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Schools are to join airlines, power stations and supermarkets in trading carbon, under British government plans to tackle global warming to be announced on Wednesday. Hilary Benn, environment secretary, will say that pollution from state schools is to be included in a scheme that will force hotels, universities and other medium sized organisations to buy and [...]
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Look Ben, you utter contemptible little twat it is simple (not as simple as you obviously) but very simple. Your government has taxed fuel - thus leading to higher costs in other areas - almost to the hilt. UK Lorry drivers who aside from the tired old stereotype don't spend all day killing female hitch hikers but actually transport goods from a/ to b/ - and so keep UK Plc ticking over are being undercut...
Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Found myself over the weekend at a party thrown by Virenrda Sharma to commemorate the passing of his first year anniversary as MP for Ealing Southall. On the top table were a number of big names: former long-serving Ealing councillor Hilary Benn, millionaire Labour donor Lord Paul and a Canadian MP who happened to be [...]
