COMPANIES charging men more for car insurance and women more for pension policies will have to change the way they do their calculations in future.

MENTION chemicals and people tend to think of smoking chimneys and foul smells. But few think of the hairdressers, mechanics, printers and other ordinary workers whose work brings them into very close contact with dangerous substances.

The EU plans to introduce a single European health card by June 2004 to enable citizens to get medical treatment anywhere in the 15 nation bloc.