The principal contractor (Coast & Country Construction) and principal designer (Paul Humphries Architects) of an extension project at Manor Lodge Residential Home in Exmouth, Devon, have been f...
Northampton Crown Court fined a contractor £566,670 after a tipper truck driven by an employee struck overhead power lines.
The contractor, Mick George, runs a company that supplies e...
UK scientists have enlisted the help of seals to help them measure the effects of climate change.
The seals from the West Coast of Antarctica have been equipped with sensors that measure wa...
England has 10 National Parks and 34 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty enjoyed by many. Now Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, has launched a review of these areas as part of the Government's <...
The UK, along with five other nations, have been referred to the European Court of Justice after they have failed to tackle high levels of air pollution.
In January, the UK, France, Germany...
Supermarket giant Tesco has been fined £1.6 million for health and safety failures in its Tesco Metro store on Greenford Road, which resulted in a delivery driver reversing into a loading bay...
A fire which started on 14 May at a scrapyard and waste site previously operated by a waste management firm, Alex Smiles, in Deptford, Sunderland, is still ongoing.
Tyne and Wear Fire and&n...
The Coal Authority has called for planners, surveyors, developers and technical consultants to ensure all issues related to historical coal mining are considered, after issuing new recommendations....
The case of Biffa Waste Services Limited v The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, a tribunal appeal, has been dismissed.
The appeal follows an earlier appeal by t...
The new President of Costa Rica has set out plans to ban fossil fuels and for the country to become the first fully decarbonised country in the world.
Carlos Alvardo, a 38 year old former j...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released an online tool in May to assist those involved in Appropriate Assessment. The bespoke GeoTool was developed...
A family in Stoke-on-Trent has been told that they would need to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to adjust the height of the roof of the house they live in or they would face demolition after...
A new set of "super turbines" planned to be built on the Isle of Lewis has been met with outrage from the residents of the island.
EDF Energy, a French company's renewables&n...
A new report has stated that more than 6 000 shale gas wells would be needed to replace half of the UK's gas imports over a 15 year period.
The fracking industry in the UK has argued that a...
115 homes in west Oxfordshire have been halted by an inspector due to potential harm to the setting of a conservation area nearby and possible disruption to occupants from a neighbouring footb...
