Irish companies have secured export contracts and business alliances totalling €17.6m in an Enterprise Ireland trade mission to France led by Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton

ENVIRONMENTAL services firm FLI Energy has secured a €35 million contract to construct anaerobic digestion plants in Britain and the North to convert food and other bio-waste into energy.

ITALY’S opposition said yesterday it would present a no-confidence motion against one of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s most loyal ministers, in another blow for the already wounded premier.

FLI Environmental, the Waterford-based environmental services company has purchased two Britain-based companies from Bord na Móna for €5 million.