LONDON, October 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading UK business communications specialists Central Telecom has retained one of the industry's most coveted awards for the fifth successive year.

Central, which employs more than 250 staff at its headquarters in Burton-on-Trent and regional offices in Guildford and the City of London, retained the title of Enterprise Converged Solution of the Year at the 7th annual Channel Network Awards held at The Hilton on Park Lane in London.

Central, a market leader in the field of convergence and IP Telephony won the title of Enterprise Convergence Solution of the Year for the fifth year in succession by designing and implementing a converged Nortel solution for Cheshire Building Society.

NORWICH, England, October 27 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of news that more people than ever before will face fuel poverty this winter, experts are stressing energy efficiency action as the only way homeowners will reduce their heating costs.

With an average energy bill set to climb to GBP1406 in 2009 (from GBP676 in 2005), the Energy Savings Trust is encouraging homeowners to actively think about the energy efficiency of their homes and make energy saving changes.

In support of this year's Energy Savings Week, which runs from Monday 20th to Sunday 26th October, property expert Anna Ryder Richardson has teamed up with the Energy Savings Trust and Anglian Home Improvements, to create an easy-to-follow energy efficiency guide for homeowners.

MAIDENHEAD, England, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Data From Another Study Supported the use of ENBREL for up to Five Years in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients

New safety and efficacy data for active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients treated with ENBREL(R) (etanercept) were presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Scientific Meeting, 24-29 October, in San Francisco, CA: (1),(2)

LONDON, October 27 /PRNewswire/ -- AboveNet Communications UK Ltd., a leading provider of fibre optic and IP transit connectivity solutions, today announced its customers will now be able to enjoy a faster, higher performance IP network connection in key European cities, with AboveNet's recently upgraded network routers. To meet demands for high bandwidth IP transit and VPN services, AboveNet has recently deployed Juniper MX960s in its European network in Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

MELBOURNE, Australia, October 27 /PRNewswire/ --

MuriGen Therapeutics today announced that its collaboration with CSL for the development of a new class of drugs that target arthritis and other inflammatory diseases has been restructured.

The collaboration was initially established in February 2006 by MuriGen Therapeutics and Zenyth Therapeutics Limited (now part of CSL Limited) and is developing therapeutic antibodies that inhibit the activity of the cytokine granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF).

The collaboration built on the discovery by Professor Ian Wicks, a clinical rheumatologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) that antagonism of G-CSF or its receptor could ameliorate inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.

ROSTOCK, Germany, October 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- The German President Presents the DBU Environmental Award to von Weizsäcker and Zinke in Rostock Today