Bob Irwin, father of Steve Irwin, has launched a campaign to make people aware of the damage being caused to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

The father of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin has launched a multimillion pound campaign to save Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

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Water bills to fall by an average of pounds 30

HOUSEHOLD WATER bills are to fall by an average of pounds 30 next year - a reduction of about 12 per cent - the industry regulator will announce today.

Letter: Urban parks neglect

Sir: You judge perceptively in illustrating the Cambridge-based case study about hi-tech businesses with a photograph of Cambridge's beautiful urban parkland ("Time to get your share", 13 November). The quality of urban open spaces and business success go hand in hand.

Enter the Ministry of Monster Hedges

ENVIRONMENT Infamous conifers grow into big issue as government starts consultation exercise. Meanwhile, an old monk may have the answer

Former US envoy gives piazza to London

THE ROYAL Academy of Arts revealed plans for its "millennium gift to London" yesterday - a pounds 3m piazza.

Finance: Auditing for a greener future

ANYBODY WHO has seen a company's annual report or attended a results presentation will understand the lengths often reached in the interests of putting the best possible gloss on financial figures. So when the Co- Operative Bank recently presented a self-proclaimed all-encompassing "warts and all" picture of itself it probably looked to many as something slightly perverse, even for an organisation that flew in the face of convention through promoting itself on who it will not lend to rather than who it will.

Late-night ravers party on as councils fail to act on noise

THOUSANDS OF people are having to endure sleepless nights because councils refuse to implement a law introduced to clamp down on noisy late-night parties.

FARMERS IN TROUBLE

FARMERS IN TROUBLE

Right of Reply: The Friends of the Earth director replies to our description of their claim that Britain is bottom of the world league for wildlife protection as `cheerful nonsense'

"CHEERFUL NONSENSE" is how The Independent yesterday described our report concluding that Britain comes bottom of the international league for wildlife protection.

Release of GM crop to get official approval approved for release

THE GOVERNMENT is set to defy environmentalists by approving the Europe-wide commercial release of a genetically modified crop currently being tested in the UK.

Outlook: New faces at DTI

Outlook: New faces at DTI

Prescott pleads for end to the sniping

Labour reshuffle

Blair assaults Prescott empire

Reshuffle Ends Era When A Minister Had To Be A Middle-Aged Man In A Dark Suit

Government reshuffle: Blair dismantles Prescott's empire

TONY BLAIR has slapped down John Prescott by using last night's Government reshuffle to break up the ministerial empire of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Prescott told: get a grip on transport

TONY BLAIR is to order John Prescott to improve the Government's performance on transport amid growing concern that the voters are becoming angered by the chaos on Britain's roads, railways and the London Underground.
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