Today the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, announced a new Bill which will ban the use of wild animals in travelling circuses.
Some of the animals which currently perform in circuses in...
Last week Natural England published a new license to kill or take c...
An appeal against the refusal to grant planning permission for the conversion of a pub into two dwellings has been dismissed by a planning inspector.
The vacant pub, the Chequers Inn, in Ba...
Campaigners and London Boroughs have lost their challenge to the development of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
Five local authorities around the West London airport, residents, London...
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) urges the Government to change the date of its policy that bans the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans in 2040. They want to b...
The Government is coming under increasing pressure over its Draft Environment (Governance and Principles) Bill after a select committee of MPs raised concerns that it downgr...
A 66-year-old man who hired and collected skips has been handed a prison sentence of six months, suspended for two years, for carrying out illegal waste operations at a site in Corby.
The <...
An application for judicial review of a decision by Natural England was dismissed in March.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and scientist and na...
This month the Royal Opera House lost its appeal over the life-changing hearing damage caused to viola player, Christopher Goldscheider, during a 2012 rehearsal.
Mr Goldscheider won the
A food processing company was sentenced last month after a worker was injured while unblocking a machine on the poultry slaughter line.
Doncaster Magistrates' Court heard that in 2012 an em...
Natural England have revoked the general licence which allowed the killing of "pest" birds such as woodpigeons, crows and jays, after a legal challenge from an environmental...
As it stands, Scotland admirably wants to place a ban on all household waste going to landfill by 2021. The ban would apply to 'black bag' waste, and recyclable material that is needlessly sent to...
The Environment Agency has announced a set of new supplier arrangements and partnerships which will increase efficiency, value for money and the gr...
The Environment Agency has secured a £200,000 donation through an Enforcement Undertaking following a pollution incident near Doncaster.
Yorkshire Water Servic...
An investigation into the Garden Bridge Trust states that the Trust spent £50 million of public funds without producing demonstrable benefit and was a "failure for charity" which risks u...
