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Why couldn't Britain's new labour laws be used to prevent the miners from bringing the country to its knees? Because, as Ian Mandle reports, the union in no way contravened them. Ordering a 60‐day ‘cooling‐off’ period would only have produced the first IR Act martyrs.

The fight over juggernaut lorries has not been won or lost with the recent ban. The law relating to massive loads has been broken in the past and will no doubt go on being ignored. Ian Mandle investigates; pictures by Eric Lockraine.

With strategic road and rail links and a work‐force that will more than double in about ten years, Redditch would seem to be the ideal place for development in the industrial Midlands. But in a town famed for its needle‐making, the progressives and traditionalists do not always see eye‐to‐eye. Report by Ian Mandle. Pictures by Colin Porter.

The CEGB pays half the wages of bird warden Bob Scott who patrols the Dungeness power complex—just one of the ways much‐maligned industry is positively helping nature. Report by Ian Mandle: pictures by Eddie Ryle‐Hodges.

Sacheverel Bateman's home will end up under water if unspoilt Tattingstone Valley is flooded for a reservoir. Over the country conservationists have proved too strong and the result is a national water crisis. Ian Mandle reports; pictures by Eric Lockrane.

Executives are taking over country houses, changing the character of rural Britain. With properties extremely limited and costs soaring, the market is likely to dry up in a few years. Ian Mandle reports; pictures by Roger Jones.

THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS is pressing the government to set up a central body to investigate and advise on the whole question of environment in Britain today. If implemented, the scheme would have a major effect on industry and is likely to be viewed by cost‐conscious management warily. Talks have taken place at Cabinet Office level, but at present the unions are concerned that the idea has become “bogged down” and is in danger of being lost because of the presence of a permanent Royal Commission and a government‐sponsored committee.

Beside the cannon at Eton, Robert McNeile, managing director of Guinness, reflects on his old school's influence. Richard Brooks talks to leading educationalists and industrialists about the power of the public schools. Pictures at Eton, Harrow and Oxford by Eric Lockrane.

BRITISH SCIENTISTS ARE NOW CLOSE to solving the problem of oil pollution at sea, and have been given the go‐ahead to do similar micro‐biological research into an equally big environmental hazard—plastic waste.

WORK IN SOME PARTS of industry is now so boring that youngsters taking their first jobs are placed under great mental stress. The most obvious symptom of the Great British Yawn is a turnover rate amongst teenagers that is much higher than the already‐bad record of people as a whole in boring and repetitive jobs.