A project has been launched in Orkney, Scotland, to create a "green" electricity grid mixing renewable energy with battery technology.
The scheme will use domestic batteries and electric ve...
DB Cargo (UK) has been fined £2.7m after a teenage boy suffered life-changing injuries while playing on the company's railway marshalling land in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
The Of...
A Co. Armagh electrical company was fined £50,000 on 21 March 2019 for a number of failings which resulted in the death of one of its employees at their site in Lurgan.
On the da...
It was confirmed in March that a consultation regarding the revision of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), to add a paragraph relating to shale fracking, was unl...
This month Severn Trent Water Limited was sentenced for discharging thousands of gallons of raw sewage from its sewer network onto land at Sutton Park, West Midlands.
The Company has been f...
Communities Secretary James Brokenshire has announced that coastal communities across England will receive funding of more than £36 million to develop and improve tourist attractions, cr...
A train refurbishment company has been sentenced this week after exposing workers to hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS).
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard how Faiveley Transport Tamworth...
Following an Environment Agency prosecution at Worcester Crown Court this month, a businessman pleaded guilty to three charges relating to the illegal operation of waste sit...
Cadbury's new campaign for a "real treasure hunt" has been temporarily suspended after a massive outcry from archaeologists who said that the advert "encourages illegal excavation and looting"...
A hearing into a mass of legal challenges to the Government's support for a third runway at Heathrow Airport began at London's High Court this week.
It is set to last for two weeks and will...
The Environment Agency has published a new economic assessment to aid planning for flooding and coastal risk management over the next 50 years.
The Study uses new da...
A distribution company based in Warrington was sentenced last month after an agency worker sustained serious, life-changing injuries whilst working in Cheltenham.
Cheltenham Magistrate's Co...
The Court of Appeal has reduced the fine of an asbestos firm on the grounds that they were incorrectly treated as a large organisation.
In July 2017, Southwark Crown Court fined NPS London...
The Government has been warned against complacency on climate change action after figures showed a slowdown in the rate of Britain's carbon emission cuts.
Emissions dropped for the sixth ye...
A survey carried out on 431 house builders across England revealed that 57% increased the rate at which they built new homes in the last year.
House builders have predicted a further r...
