• Dennis Bottorff, chairman of Council Ventures and Council Capital Management• Robert Mike Duncan, chairman and CEO of Community Holding Co. and Community Thrift Holding Co.• William Sansom, chairman and CEO of H.T. Hackney Co.• Hward Thrailkill, former president of Adtran• Susan Richardson Williams, owner of Susan Williams Public Affairs

Peter Oleksiak will replace Daniel Brudzynski as controller at DTE Energy. Brudzynski will in turn become vice president of Regulatory Affairs. Oleksiak has been with DTE Energy since 1998, most recently as assistant controller. Brudzynski joined the company in 1997. He has been controller since 1999 and vice president since 2001.

ComEd has announced that, effective immediately, a new five-member board of directors has been elected for the company. The five directors are:

Meet Blogs for Bush contributor Mark Noonan:At anyhis speech in full:Mr Blair said nuclear power was a difficult issue but should be settled by open debate, not protests to stop free speech.

The energy review would be headed by the Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks and report by the middle of next year, he announced.

It would measure the UK's progress against a review carried out two years ago.

And it would "include specifically the issue of whether we facilitate the development of a new generation of nuclear power stations", he said.

Mr Blair said energy policy was "back on the agenda with a vengeance".

Sweden shut its Barsebäck 2 reactor on June 1st, the second reactor to be taken out of service in the country since 1999 as part of a plan to phase out nuclear power over the next