Hundreds of high-rise buildings are already registering with the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to be included in the stricter regime intended to protect residents.
BSR is a new regula...
Two major transport companies were fined a total of £2.2m after a depot manager was killed when a HGV vehicle struck him.
On 30 August 2019, Neil Roberts who worked for Turners (Soham...
Before the latest rounds of negotiations for an international plastics treaty, campaign group Greenpeace has warned that recycling plastic can make it more toxic and should not be considered a solu...
Butterfly populations that live on grasslands across Europe have declined by more than a third in the past decade, according to a study.
Seventeen species that were once commonly found in p...
British start-up Satellite Vu have used a thermal camera to fly over Leeds and map information on the current energy crisis.
The thermal camera can pinpoint which houses are leaking the mos...
Two academics have called for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to investigate every work-related suicide following the death of a headteacher in January.
The he...
The UK Government has scrapped the controversial plans to automatically expire all EU-derived legislation at the end of this year, dubbed a "post-Brexit bonfire".
Since Brexit, the UK had i...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued a safety notice after high concentrations of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) were identified in ullage spaces of cargo a...
Anglian Water have been fined £2.65 million after pleading guilty at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court to allowing millions of litres of untreated sewage to overflow into the North Sea.
I...
Research carried out by the House of Commons library, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, has shown that the UK's investment in clean energy has slowed over the 2021-2022 period, falling 10% fro...
The Faculty of Engineering at University of Nottingham have received £2m of funding from Research England through the UKRPIF: Net Zero pilot initiative, to develop a smart energy grid project...
A US company, Quantum Energy, has committed to invest £300m to transform a Scottish port in the Highlands, placed between Inverness and Nairn, into a major green energy transition facility.</...
Two separate construction companies have been sentenced by the Health and Safety Executive after a man was struck by a 124kg panel and spent almost two weeks in hospital.
The worker suffere...
The UK government is set for another U-turn, this time over the controversial Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022, which aimed to remove all Retained EU legisl...
After a £38 million donation from Aviva, Wildlife Trusts has said it will begin to restore rainforest habitat on the Isle of Man and North Wales.
The donation is part of a larger &pou...
