Both changes are having a particularly severe effect on science.

Unite said that job losses would have a 'severe effect on the local economy'.

Even a far lower charge - 10p a mile, say - would have a severe effect on people in rural areas.

But other junk foods such as fizzy drinks and takeaways did not have such a severe effect.

Wetting conditions near industrial plants or saltwater will have more severe effect on the jacket resistance than in freshwater rain or fog.