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V Festival teams up with luxury toilet provider
24th of August 2017
Organisers of this year's V Festival teamed up with a luxury toilet provider to provide music-lovers with better loos - at a price.
Visitors to last weekend's festival in Chelmsford, UK were invited to pay £20 (€22) per day or £35 (€38.5) for both days for access to a VIPee washroom.
These toilets are said to offer higher
Transport for London awards new cleaning contract to ABM UK
23rd of August 2017
Transport for London (TfL) has awarded a five-year contract for the provision of cleaning and associated services to ABM UK - guaranteeing 2,800 people will receive the London Living Wage.
The contract includes the cleaning of London Underground stations and trains, bus depots, head office buildings and the London Transport Museum.
It is one of
Real-time monitoring helps ensure food hygiene in Shanghai
22nd of August 2017
Shanghai's food watchdog has developed a monitoring system that is designed to capture any food hygiene transgressions made by production workers.
Surveillance cameras record scenes from the food production area and pick up details such as whether staff are wearing uniforms and masks and if they are disinfecting equipment and operating areas
British Cleaning Council council changes
21st of August 2017
The British Cleaning Council (BCC) - which represents over 20 national trade associations linked to the UK's cleaning, hygiene and waste management sectors - has officially elected a new chairman and deputy chair.
The new chairman is Stan Atkins, chief executive of the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc). His vacated deputy chair
New LG airport robots trialling in South Korea
18th of August 2017
Electronics giant LG is trialling new robots in South Korea's largest airport, in preparation for next year's Winter Olympics. Seoul's Incheon International Airport is currently home to two of the company's latest prototype bots: the Airport Guide Robot and the Airport Cleaning Robot.
Unveiled earlier this year, both bots do exactly what their
Norovirus hits international athletics championships
17th of August 2017
An outbreak of norovirus blighted this year's World Athletics Championships when more than 40 people associated with the event displayed symptoms of the illness.
Members of the German, Canadian, Botswana and Irish teams were among those athletes and officials affected. Four cases of norovirus were confirmed with more than 40 other people showing
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