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		<title>Major review of Building Schools for the Future – schools most in need targeted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Michael Gove today set out a complete overhaul of capital  investment in England’s schools.
Bringing an end to Building Schools for the Future (BSF), he said ‘In the  light of the public finances, it would have been irresponsible to carry on  regardless with an inflexible, and needlessly complex programme.’
The key elements [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=99</link>
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		<title>The LK Group Launches latest online product code4homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bury based environmental consultancy, The LK Group, has launched its latest online product www.code4homes.co.uk, which is designed to help enable more effective management of The Code for Sustainable Homes process.
The LK Group’s managing director, Dr Scott Elliott, said, “The Code for Sustainable Homes is an environmental assessment method, which has been introduced to drive change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=92</link>
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		<title>Unions back report findings on schools’ asbestos failings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of unions has welcomed an audit report that points to serious mismanagement of asbestos in Britain’s schools.
The  report, based on the findings of a pilot study of 12 schools by the  Asbestos Training and Consultancy Association (ATAC), argues that  schools are failing to comply with their legal duty to manage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Warning On Britain’s Biggest Workplace Killer As Death Toll Tops 35,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new generation of workers are at risk unless building trades get to grips with Britain&#8217;s biggest workplace killer &#8211; asbestos, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned.
Figures from the HSE show that around a quarter of the 4,000 or so people dying from asbestos-related diseases each year in Britain are tradesmen such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=81</link>
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		<title>HSE Targeted Inspection Campaign Of Leeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Leeds City Council (LCC) are working together to carry out a targeted inspection campaign of businesses throughout the Leeds area.
From November, Inspectors from the HSE and LCC will be undertaking a programme of health and safety inspections aimed at raising awareness and improving standards of health and safety [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Manchester Companies Fined After Workers Exposed To Asbestos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two businesses and a company director have been fined after workers in Manchester were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres.
 The prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) came just days before the launch of a national £1.2 million campaign to increase awareness about asbestos among tradespeople (see separate story).
The Ashton-under-Lyne based company pleaded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Asbestos: A shameful legacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The authorities knew it was deadly more than 100 years ago, but it was only banned entirely in 1999. The annual death rate will peak at more than 5,000 in 2016 – now MPs have a chance to do the decent thing.
By Emily Dugan:  Source
They called it &#8220;the Barking cough&#8221;. First it began like any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=64</link>
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		<title>“Persistent mishandling of asbestos” exposed staff to risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A waste-management business has been fined £40,000 for continually poorhandling of asbestos, which put its staff and the environment at risk of harm.
Biffa Waste Services Limited was sentenced on 14 October under the s33(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, in relation to two charges of breaching its waste-management licence.

The district judge said the company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=58</link>
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		<title>LK Group add value in company restructure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the UK’s leading and most innovative  environmental consultants to property and land owners and developers, LK Group,  has restructured to establish individual operating companies for two of its  core businesses.   LK Assure Ltd  (Asbestos Consultants) and LK Consult Ltd (Contaminated Land Consultants) are  now separate corporate entities under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Commercial EPC News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent survey carried out by Stroma  Accreditation revealed that the take-up of non-domestic EPCs currently stands  at approximately 15-25%. All LK clients are reminded of the following (which is taken from Page 15 of the guide to energy performance certificates for the  construction, sale and let of non-dwellings)

“As soon as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.thelkgroup.com/?p=3</link>
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