Crisis for fuel-starved services - The health service is put on red alert as the petrol crisis continues and local authorities struggle to maintain services

Stemming the flow - Water, water everywhere - but 4 billion litres of it a day pours out of holes in pipes rather than gushes out of taps. So how come water companies score top marks for performance?

Meilton, David, (2005)

What goes around - Britain is still way ahead of most of Europe in the amount of household waste it continues to bury and burn. How are councils going to meet their tough new European Union recycling targets?

Meilton, David, (2005)

Unwelcome in the hillside - As the revaluation of Welsh properties comes into effect, the rest of the UK has been watching with mounting horror. The new tax bands were introduced in April, bouncing a third of properties up by a band or more

Meilton, David, (2005)