The low-cost van rental company easyVan.com is celebrating reaching a major business milestone, having received 10,000 online bookings in its first official year of operation. Since officially launching in January 2007, this rapidly expanding business increased its number of rental locations to more than 120 sites, making it one of the biggest van hire networks in the UK.

Research has shown that the majority of its customers use the van rental service due to its competitive pricing for moving house, with others requiring short-term van hire for furniture collection, helping students in and out of university accommodation and completing DIY projects. Offering cheap prices on a range of different sized vehicles, easyVan.com is seen as an ideal option for customers who require an affordable and reliable service.

Heated debate as minister makes case for renewables

There's no energy gap; there will be no energy gap," Mr Mather insisted.But LEWIS MACDONALD, for Labour, challenged this assumption.He said: "When senior Scottish ministers argue that there is no energy gap, because over 90 per cent of energy consumption is met at a particular point in time by coal, oil, gas and renewables, and there is therefore no need to think about anything else, they are not just guilty of using selective statistics for their own ends."Mr Macdonald said if the London government bridges the UK energy gap by the development of new nuclear power stations in the south of England, Scottish as well as English consumers will take electricity from the grid those power stations supply."So the SNP's portrayal of themselves as the great opponents of nuclear electricity is simply an illusion," he added."In fact by opting out of the Energy Bill, opting out of a common strategy for nuclear waste and declining to extend the principle of polluter-pays to nuclear power-station decommissioning, they are simply opting out of the real debate."They are also fundamentally wrong to suggest that the only energy or electricity that Scotland should produce should be the energy or electricity that Scotland will consume.

Wine-import company offers Italian brand

KleeNagel Ltd., a Spring Township wine-import firm known for bringing Castle of Dracula Marsecco to the United States has imported a Prosecco — a light, semi-sparkling Italian white wine. Prosecco and Marsecco are bottled by Ottomar Rudolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco, the modern-day royal descendant of the infamous Romanian ruler Vlad Tzepes — on whom Bram Stoker's novel, “Dracula," is based. The wines are available at The Sheraton Berkshire, Wyomissing, and Bube's Brewery, Mount Joy, Lebanon County; and soon will be available at G Lounge, a new nightclub in Philadelphia. Orders also are available through the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's special liquor order program by completing an order form in any State Store. l l l Penske Truck Leasing, Green Hills, opened a 12,000-square-foot facility that offers commercial and consumer truck rental services, truck leasing and contract maintenance in Lubbock, Texas.