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A north-east company has developed a process to remove potentially harmful chemical waste from manufacturing processes.

The new process, developed by Integrated Effluent Solutions (IES) of Spennymoor, CountyDurham, has been developed with the aid of a £74,000 research and development grant from regional development agency One North East.

The 18-month project cost a total of £140,000.

The chemical process uses hypersonic vibrations to separate the sulphate from the waste water.

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We love Cesc Fabregas. Well, at least one diminutive, Arsenal-loving Content Editor does, anyway. And, to celebrate the recent release of Real Football 09 on Nintendo DS and iPhone, we’re literally going to give one lucky user the shirt off the Spanish schemer’s back. Little Cescy’s even signed it for us, too.

All you have to do is answer the following question:

‘Which team did Fabregas score his first goal for Arsenal against?’

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UPDATE: You can watch the Golden Joystick Awards ceremony as it happens, keep up with the live blogand find out who the winners are by heading tothis page here.

Today is the day. Crunch time. The nerve shredder. It’s the day when over 850,000 votes are finally converted into the tangible hard currency of coveted prizes. Yes, today is the Golden Joystick Awards, when all that hard-earned gamer adoration gets sealed up in a sparkling envelope of dreams, waiting to be released amidst a cacophony of rapturous applause and drunken heckling.

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UPDATE: You can watch the Golden Joystick Awards ceremony as it happens, keep up with the live blogand find out who the winners are by heading tothis page here.

Today is the day. Crunch time. The nerve shredder. It’s the day when over 850,000 votes are finally converted into the tangible hard currency of coveted prizes. Yes, today is the Golden Joystick Awards, when all that hard-earned gamer adoration gets sealed up in a sparkling envelope of dreams, waiting to be released amidst a cacophony of rapturous applause and drunken heckling.

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