
A self-employed roofer has been sentenced after leaving a gas appliance flue in an immediately dangerous condition when he removed a chimney stack from a property in March 2019.
Truro Crown...

National charity Civic Voice has urged all political parties to commit to giving communities a "meaningful voice" at every stage of the planning system.
In its manifesto for the forthcoming...

Plans that include up to 1,495 homes at Salford's Cotton Quay have been lodged with the city council.
If approved, the development would comprise buildings of 37 and 48 storeys in height, a...

Moths are seen to be declining in abundance by near to 10% each continuing decade in Britain, but the remaining ones are growing in average weight, currently seen as double of what it was in 1...

As it aims to deliver more than 22,000 homes, Westminster City Council has approved its chosen development blueprint, the City Plan 2019-2040.
The plan is designed so that they can create:<...

Following a takeover from the coalition by the purely Conservative government, the spending on both trees and forestry fell, by nearly £20 million a year, between 2015 and 2018.
The <...

Recently, scientist's research has discovered that the world's shifting ocean circulation patterns may have triggered a rapid increase in the speed of winds for the past 10 years - since the late 1...

A recent report revealed a risk to the health of occupants in Ireland, and the environment of the country, as report shows repeated delays in the elimination of raw sewage as unacceptable.

The owner and operator of a mill in Bosley has been charged with corporate manslaughter, following the death of four people in an explosion in 2015.
Derek Moore, Dorothy Bailey,...

In order to rescue the UK steelmaker, British Steel, the Chinese firm Jingye has said it will invest £1.2 billion in a signed deal.
They seek to help preserve thousands of jobs,...

Hundreds of homes and businesses in Cornwall have started selling electricity to their local energy network, as well as their national energy systems, in a pioneering move.
The t...

Hackney Council claims to be the first local authority to install a reverse vending machine, as part of its efforts to improve the recycling rates both in flats and on estates.
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EasyJet is set to become the world's first major airline to operate net-zero carbon flights across its entire network, after announcing it would offset all emissions.
The Airline said it wo...

Figures have revealed that Councils had to deal with more than 1 million incidents of fly-tipping in the last year alone, describing an upward trend as the problem continues to rise.
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As part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) £20-million GovTech Catalyst fund, the Government are awarding £1 million funding to tw...