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Action Renewables is a joint venture between the DETI and Viridian to stimulate awareness and discussion of renewable energy technologies.
In 2004 they had an excellent plan to help raise awareness - power the lights of the Belfast City Hall Christmas tree using a wind-powered generator.
Everyone seems to have thought this was a good idea: the [...]

I’ve just been informed by Food Safety in Belfast City Council that they have plans to publish their inspection reports on the web, but are currently awaiting legal opinion to make sure it’s OK for them to volunteer this information openly (rather than as a result to a specific FoI request).
Assuming they get the go [...]

When I’ve visited Boston in the past I’ve always liked that the local press publish accounts of food safety inspections, and have often wondered why we don’t get that here.
I suspect that that’s about to change. The Information Commissioner has ruled that local councils have to make public their reports on the health and safety [...]

In regard to the allegation that he sold smuggled tobacco from his ice-cream vans, Mr. Baxter indicated that the tobacco in question had been purchased from a local cash and carry and that he had been unaware that he was not permitted to sell tobacco from an ice-cream van.

It seems that Belfast City Council agree that their website is terrible.
They’re worried that traffic to their website has declined (although I suspect they don’t really measure this very well), and also that the recent report by the Society of Information Technology Managers on the website of all UK local authorities gives them bad marks [...]

The DSD have finally provided me with the information I requested back in October (although they seem to have internally classed the request date as 9 November!) relating to the awarding of the department’s advertising account (including design and placement of advertising, event management, PR, marketing, and general communications support) to Navigator Blue back in [...]