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Journalist with 20 years' experience in the media across local, regional and national newspapers, as well as business titles and online. I am currently deputy editor of Windpower Monthly. I have previously held the roles of: associate editor, senior reporter, news editor, features editor and analysis & opinion editor. I also have experience with media relations and campaign work on behalf of charities.
The evidence is that, as blades get larger, issues such as leading edge erosion - and its cumulative effect on annual energy production - will get worse and other types of repairs more frequent.
Turbine manufacturers have endured another difficult year for their businesses; with rising costs for raw materials and logistics, uncertainty over tax credits in the US and countries failing to build enough new capacity to meet their own targets in many parts of Europe hampering their profitability.
Jon Snow, the veteran broadcaster who has presented Channel 4 News since 1989, has the day off. But it's hardly relaxing. We are in the ornate Great Room of the Grosvenor House hotel on London's Park Lane, where tonight he swaps the news studio for presenting the PRWeek Awards to 1,000 industry professionals.
Respondents to a survey on sexual harassment in the PR and comms industry report abuse by agency chiefs, senior staff and clients; with incidents taking place on work trips and at awards ceremonies, while those on the receiving end criticise those in charge for covering it up.
The choice facing Lord Adonis was stark: accept that black pupils are more likely to be badly behaved or brand Britain's schools "institutionally racist". One of Tony Blair's favourite ministers had been presented with the conclusions of a high-level official report into why black pupils are three times more likely than whites to be excluded from school.
Last week brought the spectacular implosion of Boris Johnson's inner circle and the departure of Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain after either a blazing row or an amicable chat, depending on which sources you read. by Ian Griggs, Jonathan Owen and John Harrington Sign in to continue Don't have an account?
The animal charity is no stranger to mounting prosecutions, but its legal action against a law-breaking hunt has aroused strong passions on both sides of the debate.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics from 2007 say that one in four people experience mental illness symptoms in any given year and, although this uses a slightly different metric, the PRCA survey suggests the rate of incidence of mental illness in PR is higher than the national average.