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<title>Environment Agency partnership with Norhamptonshire Police</title>
<description> As part of the agreement, the Environment Agency and Fire and Rescue Service will share information, training and other resources. The fire service also ...</description>
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<creator>Country: England</creator>
<pubDate>30/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Government ends regionalisation of fire services</title>
<description> This is the latest step in abolishing regional government and follows recently announced plans to scrap Regional Development Agencies and Regional ...</description>
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<creator>Country: England and Wales</creator>
<pubDate>29/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Review of arm’s length bodies to cut bureaucracy includes proposed abolition of HPA</title>
<description> Subject to Parliamentary approval, organisations which are no longer needed will be removed from the sector, with essential work moved to other bodies. </description>
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<creator>Country: UK</creator>
<pubDate>28/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Councils stocking up on salt for winter during the heat of summer</title>
<description> “Taking the right action now, in the height of summer, can make all the difference when the dark days of winter make a return. The gritting season will be ...</description>
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<creator>Country: England and Wales</creator>
<pubDate>28/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>USDA Offers Food Safety Tips for Iowa, Illinois Flooding</title>
<description> “Particularly during times of emergency, food safety can be a critical public health risk,” said USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Jerold Mande. ...</description>
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<creator>Country: USA</creator>
<pubDate>27/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Charity manages evacuation centres</title>
<description> “We know from experience that emergencies require the expertise, skills and resources of both government and non-government emergency management agencies.” </description>
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<creator>Country: Australia</creator>
<pubDate>27/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Speech by the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, refers to civil contingencies</title>
<description> The Spending Review process will be used to test which activities currently carried out by the Government Offices should continue, and to decide the most ...</description>
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<creator>Country: UK</creator>
<pubDate>26/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>New podcast will help communities to help themselves in an emergency</title>
<description> A step by step podcast that will help create a community emergency plan has now been developed. As well as giving advice on how to prepare and produce a ...</description>
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<creator>Country: England</creator>
<pubDate>26/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>ACPO response to ‘Valuing the Police’ and 'Sustaining Value for Money in the Police Service’</title>
<description> "... in ACPO’s view&amp;#160;(savings) would only be achievable by significant re-engineering and would require major political will to deliver. Eighty ...</description>
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<creator>Country: England and Wales</creator>
<pubDate>22/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Secretary Napolitano announces more than 1.8 billion dollars in fiscal year 2010 preparedness grants</title>
<description> “This funding pays for training for fire fighters, medics and police officers, supports the purchase of equipment that is essential to our first ...</description>
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<creator>Country: USA</creator>
<pubDate>22/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Business Continuity Planning - vital for company survival</title>
<description> Companies need to consider how they would carry on safely and efficiently were a disaster to strike, and knock out fundamental parts of their ...</description>
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<creator>Country: International</creator>
<pubDate>21/07/2010</pubDate>
<category> Nation Management</category>
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<title>Police and partners already in training for London 2012</title>
<description> Exercise was a vital step forward in testing that planning and is the first of a series of national Olympic security exercises. </description>
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<creator>Country: UK</creator>
<pubDate>20/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Canada and USA meet to discuss critical infrastructure resilience</title>
<description> cooperative initiatives to advance a strategic dialogue on a shared vision for border security for Canada and the United States. </description>
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<creator>Country: Canada and USA</creator>
<pubDate>20/07/2010</pubDate>
<category> Nation Management</category>
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<title>US residents can apply for disaster aid On their Smart Phone </title>
<description> Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Disaster Survivors </description>
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<creator>Country: USA</creator>
<pubDate>20/07/2010</pubDate>
<category> Nation Management</category>
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<title>New AHRQ Guides Offer Hospitals Advice on Emergency Evacuation, Assessment and Recovery</title>
<description> the guides examine how hospital personnel have coped under emergency situations in the past to better understand what factors should be considered when ...</description>
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<creator>Country: USA</creator>
<pubDate>19/07/2010</pubDate>
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<title>Hospital tests emergency response to major incident </title>
<description> "... to identify both the strengths and weaknesses of our emergency plan. After the exercise, we can then look at what did not work so well, and consider ...</description>
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<creator>Country: Jersey</creator>
<pubDate>16/07/2010</pubDate>
<category> Nation Management</category>
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<title>Armenia hosts NATO disaster response exercise “ARMENIA 2010”</title>
<description> Up to 1,000 participants from NATO and Partner countries as well as representatives and observers from other international organizations and nations are ...</description>
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<creator>Country: International and Armenia</creator>
<pubDate>16/07/2010</pubDate>
<category> Nation Management</category>
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<title>ECDC Director attends ministerial meeting - how Europe can be better prepared for health security crises</title>
<description> part of the agenda was dedicated to the issues raised during a conference the previous week - ‘Lessons learned from the influenza pandemic A H1N1’ </description>
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<creator>Country: Europe</creator>
<pubDate>15/07/2010</pubDate>
<category> Nation Management</category>
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<title>Canada and USA announce new cooperative initiatives to combat threats and expedite travel and trade</title>
<description> meeting to advance a strategic dialogue on developing a shared vision for border security for Canada and the United States — one that will enhance ...</description>
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<creator>Country: Canada and USA</creator>
<pubDate>15/07/2010</pubDate>
<category> Nation Management</category>
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<title>London ambulance radio system 'fails in heavy rain'</title>
<description> The report made a number of recommendations including updating procedure to reflect the introduction of radios. </description>
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<creator>Country: England</creator>
<pubDate>14/07/2010</pubDate>
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