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The government says the decision on building new nuclear reactors will be entirely up to the market and utility companies will have to pay their "full share" of decommissioning and waste management costs, but Gordon Brown is going to have to cook the books like a cordon bleu chef he if wants to attract new investment.

While Brown teams up with French president Nicholas Sarkozy at Emirates stadium today to push through his dream of a new nuclear era, a government advisor is publishing a new cost analysis that suggests energy companies cannot be charged a fully commercial price for waste disposal without "killing the prospect" of a new generation of nuclear reactors.

I've been getting emails for months now about the summer festival options, there were even promises of sunshine (I don’t believe them), and with spring just around the corner it's about time I started to figure out what I'll be doing.

After slogging through the mud for about a week at Glastonbury last year with the Greenpeace team, the thought of going back made my heart sink. But then I thought what if it really is sunny this year? Oh what joy I remember in those fleeting sunny moments. Ok, I can't resist it, I want to go.

Photo taken on mobile phone by one of the climbers on top of the plane.

Four Greenpeace climate campaigners have just climbed on top of a Manchester to London plane after it parked at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal One. They are now covering the tailfin with a huge protest banner that reads “CLIMATE EMERGENCY – NO 3rd RUNWAY”.

A Greenpeace climate-friendly Valentines Guide (mostly)

My friend Hugo recently noted "it's Valentine's Day, and the very idea of the depressingly rampant commercialism around it all makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon...". And he used to work in advertising. So this got me thinking about all the red and/or fluffy tat currently littering the high street. Not that I have ever been showered with such absurd gifts - no man would dare. But someone out there must be buying this stuff, and it needn't be that way.

If you are staring down the next 24 hours without a clue what to do for your lover on Valentine's day, I'm offering up some guidance that is loving towards the planet, and will put a spark in your day - the rest of the year is up to you.