- D1E Rock
Night 2003
- Photographs
by Patrick Trollope
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- WITH only one more heat to go on Friday 21 November and the grand final…28 November at the Casablanca Entertainment Centre, Pleasureland, you must be mad to miss it. The event has 9 bands going head to head for a grand prize that includes £250 worth of musical equipment from Curly Music of Liverpool and a live video shoot courtesy of Independent Sound UK.
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Competition fans will remember Pleasureland's "FAME - Search for a Star" completion, while D1E are driving the Southport rock scene forwards having already organised the weekly
"Devil's Night" at Club Code as well as events at Mr B's and Fubar.
The competition format is three heats, with the winners decided by an audience vote. The three winners then play in the final on 28th November. Admission is free, and there'll be a DJ each night to keep things going between sets.
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MERSEY FOREST CLEAN UP
REVITALISATION
of the Merseyside area and its environment has taken on a new format as this year has seen the largest amounts of former urbanized areas returned to the environment as shown by the Mersey Forest project.
An annual report from the project has shown that more and more derelict urban areas are being returned to a natural habitat as a result of the plantation of more than 280 hectares of new woodland in the Merseyside area - Half of the 139hectares of currently disused derelict land and cleaning up local ‘grot spots’, contaminated dumps and old landfill sites.
In total, since the Mersey Forest project began, 2,500 hectares of woodland and 1,000 hectares of non woodland habitats such as green spaces and wildflower meadows and ponds have been created, an area the size of the city of Liverpool.
As well as continuing to attract significant funds from European Objective 1, the Northwest Development Agency and other sources, the area is also set to benefit from the ground-breaking £23 million Newlands program. It will use community woodlands to provide sustainable solutions to a wide range of problems – this can range from screening industrial areas to providing new amenities for local communities.
Jaguar drives profits higher through environmental measures
JAGUAR CARS LIMITED has seen costs driven down in its paint shop division at Halewood, through implementation of measures designed to reduce VOC emissions.
Motor manufacturers use significant amounts of solvent during vehicle coating operations, as a paint component, or as a thinner or for cleaning. In common with other major solvent-using industries, motor manufacturers have to meet strict volatile organic compound (VOC) emission limits.
In 2001, Jaguar Cars Limited, part of the Ford owned Premier Automotive Group, took over production at the Halewood site. In the mid 1990s, the site was run by Ford who introduced a solvent management system to identify opportunities to reduce VOC emissions
Phil Nugent, Paint Shop Manager at the Jaguar plant in Halewood said:-
"The solvent management work has, over the years, proved an asset to our company, evolving into a robust, flexible and reliable compliance tool which enables the identification of cost savings, assists in predictive solvent reduction planning and supports ISO certifications. The shared vision of Jaguar Cars, and its lead suppliers, is to reduce our impact on the environment through the efforts of a cross-functional team, using the solvent management tool."
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