Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London has said that from October this year, the owners of more polluting cars will have to pay extra charge for driving within the congestion charge zone in central London...
73% of the UK's beaches have been found to be littered with tiny plastic "nurdles" in a study on 279 shorelines.
The plastic pieces are the size of lentils and are used as a raw materi...
A £200 million development proposal has been submitted to Manchester City Council by former professional footballers Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville. The pair aim to transform an area of Manchester thr...
The European Commission has sent a "final warning" to the UK for failing to address repeated breaches of legal air pollution limits.
Air pollution limits were breach...
Newcastle Council has announced that it is considering handing over the responsibility for running its parks to a charity. Doing so could be a cost-saving measure and could also mean extra funding...
Tesco has set up a trial to help Britain's shrinking honey bee population through the use of waste sugar from split bags and leftovers from bakeries and use it as a feed for bees struggling to...
Some of Britain's most significant sites are at risk of damage from coastal erosion and flooding.
After severe weather in 2009, damage was caused to Wordsworth House and Garden, costin...
Newcastle's city centre skyline is set to grow as plans for a 26 story tower are approved.
The tower will house 162 one and two bed apartments, available for private rent.
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The European Union's renewable energy targets for 2020 appear to be within reach whilst the UK is one of only three member states to become more dependent on imported energy in the last decade...
The two owners of Kidderminster based fencing firm Hoo Farm Fencing have been given suspended sentences after a worker was hit by timber posts and frames which fell from a fork lift truck.
Legal and General have asked for a "critical reassessment" of green belt land, claiming that releasing only 1% of green belt land will free up enough land to build one million new homes.
It...
The Scottish Government has released a public consultation over whether to allow unconventional extraction of gas and oil, including fracking to take place in Scotland.
The consultation run...
Network Rail have been fined £800,000 after a worker was struck by a train at 80mph. The fine was handed down by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) after an extensive i...
A Blaydon-on-Tyne engineering firm has been sentenced and fined £40,000 after a worker suffered life changing injuries at work.
The worker was moving an 18 tonne steel roll with lifti...
The Scottish Government have recently published a consultation on proposed changes to the planning system, seeking views on them from the public. The changes include proposa...
